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Subject: [DNA] Re: My 25 marker result from FTDNA
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 13:58:52 EDT
John Chandler wrote:
<<That means you have a difference of 1+1+4 = 6 units. If you want to
view the two lines as diverging from some common ancestor in the past,
then you need to take the 6 units and multiply by (25 yrs/gen) and divide by
(0.002 mut/gen/loc) x (12 loc) x 2 to get an estimate of the time
since that ancestor. In other words, about 3000 years, give or take
a milennium or so.>>
John, please explain how you arrived at 3000 years. My math is lacking !
Lloyd Ellis
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