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Subject: Re: [DNA] mtDNA questions
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 08:27:12 EST


In a message dated 01/01/03 9:45:50 PM Pacific Standard Time,
writes:

> Hi! On the listing below you can see my results. I noticed this person has
> some of my mutations. I haven't been able to get these same matches on
> anyone yet. So this is very suprising to me. Can this mean we could
> possibly have a common ancestor? I highlighted our matches.
>
> HVR1 - H, 16304C - HVR2 263G, 315.1C, 456T, 523-, 524-
>

RootsWeb will only handle plain text, so your highlighting didn't survive.
But the answer to your question is no (or rather, the common ancestor lived
tens of thousands of years ago). You're looking for an exact match (or at
most, one difference), and even then, the common ancestor could have lived
thousands of years ago.

Ann Turner
GENEALOGY-DNA List Administrator
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