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From: "Bailey" <>
Subject: RE: [DNA] DYS464
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 21:11:11 -0600
In-Reply-To: <002a01c2a916$4da2ba40$88c94dd1@NancySonyIV>


Nancy...

Must reread the original message on DYS464....

Thanks for writing..

Bill

-----Original Message-----
From: Nancy Custer [mailto:]
Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2002 11:28 AM
To:
Subject: RE: [DNA] DYS464


DYS464 does not exist in more than one place at a time. There are
multiple copies (4) of the DYS464 sequence on the Y chromosome--all with
the same primers (which are just small bits of surrounding DNA.) Giving
them different identities would be like printing your message below,
cutting out all the words, mixing them up, then separating out the five
occurrences of the word "the" and trying to figure out the exact
location of each one in the original message.

This is not a great analogy because you might have some clues from the
cut shapes of the words (like a jig saw puzzle.) There would be no such
identifying features of different copies of the STR marker.

Nancy

-----Original Message-----
From: Bailey [mailto:]
Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 9:21 PM
To:
Subject: RE: [DNA] DYS464

Georgia...

We will cross our fingers that you do get the match so you don't have
to mess with the random statistical distance non-sense..

A note, I didn't understand the DYS464 in multiple places at the same
time as someone said something could not be at two places at the same
time..
Might as well give them two or three different loci names.

Bill



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