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Subject: [DNA] Oxford Ancestors Matriline Aligned to Other mtDNA sequences
Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2002 19:32:49 EDT

I received my Oxford Ancestors Matriline yesterday. I belong to Ursula.
That in itself is not very interesting; however, I have been aligning my
sequence, using the USC Sequence Alignment Server, with a collection of
sequences found in a paper by TAMURA-NEI (1993). This paper contains 70
mtDNA sequences--much more broadly defined than Europeans alone (i.e. Pygmy,
etc.) which can be aligned with the OA Matriline sequence.

Ursula is the oldest "clade" that Sykes and Co. identify with Europeans. I
find it very interesting that my Ursula sequence scores more closely to a
Pygmy than it does to any of the dozen or so European sequences in the set.

Has anyone done a similar exercise with any of the seven other OA "clade's"?

Drop me a note if you have.

Paul Wood

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