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Subject: Re: [DNA] SURPRISE DNA RESULTS
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 11:55:41 EST


In a message dated 03/17/04 8:21:21 AM Pacific Standard Time,
writes:

> My brother just received his male line DNA results
> from Howard University. We believed the results would
> point to an area in Africa our paternal ancestors came
> from. Surprise, the results point to Columbia South
> America. We are trying to figure out how our ancestors
> from Columbia became, slaves in South Carolina.

Hmm, that makes me wonder if they used the Y-STR database, which has
contributions from Colombia.

What were your brother's actual numbers for the various DYS markers? It could
even have been a European haplotype, which just happens to have a branch that
migrated to Colombia. You can check his results at http://www.ystr.org. Did
they give your brother a haplogroup assignment?

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