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From: "Jim & Gaila" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Re: GENEALOGY-DNA-D Digest V02 #518
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 09:01:37 +1100
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Hello

Regarding physical characteristics, it is amazing to me, that one of my
cousins, had quite different 'looks' than the rest of us and then we saw a
Civil War ancestor and there was a very strong resemblance. So he was
almost like a throwback to our "Foreman family" looks.

There must be explanations of how this would occur?
Another question I have raised by this post is would sons carry their
Mother's mitochondrial DNA, as well as daughters?
Thanks
Gaila


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Subject: [DNA] Re: GENEALOGY-DNA-D Digest V02 #518


> I am told most inherited physical characteristics disappear in about 4 to
5
> generations, because the genetic pool is much larger to choose from. The
> child has two parents, four grandparents, 8 great-grandparents, etc., with
32
> grandparents in the 5th generation. Only 1/32 of the total genome can be
> used. Understandable why Wythe and Jefferson thought they could change
the
> racial balance.
>
> What remains, for over 500 generations, without mutation, is the Y & X
> chromosome markers, inherited by males from their father and by females
from
> their mother.
>
> I am also, perhaps mistaken, that making decisions about Y-DNA with
> comparisons of such small data bases seems unwarrented. Although some
Y-DNA
> has obviously been lost, less than a very small part of what still
survives
> is now cataloged.
>
> Wayne Rogers
> Jasper GA
>
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