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From: "Fran Akridge" <>
Subject: RE: [DNA] MRCA, Mutations, Statistics, Etc.
Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 11:32:30 -0400
In-Reply-To: <29407296.1083361891872.JavaMail.root@wamui06.slb.atl.earthlink.net>


There are a substantial number of otherwise smart people who translate
ranges, confidence intervals, and probabilities to something exact - one
example is that one of my ancestors differs from a same-surname
self-identified cousin by one fast-moving marker (in the first 12, with
a 24/25), and the statement made is that their MRCA is 31 generations
back.




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