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From: Whitney Keen <>
Subject: odd mtdna
Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 12:03:24 -0400


Hello everyone:

My father (the space alien) has very odd mtdna. First of all he does not
have the mutation at 519. Now that I have gotten his HVR1 and HVR2
Mutations, Bennett Greenspan tells me that they still cannot place him
in a haplogroup. So to debbie with only one mutation, welcome to the
land of the weird.

His mutations as follows:

HVR1 16172C
16223T
16256T
16339G

HVR2 73G
263G
309.1C
315.1C

No matches, and no near matches. Any further input? FTDNA also checked
for error and says, no error. My father's mother's family were English
New Englanders as far as we know. His Y tests out to I, which is
consistent with family history and tradition. I am at a loss as to what
to tell him, except that maybe Doniken was right and some space aliens
landed in Mesopotamia back in the Bronze Age, and perhaps he is
descended from these people. :-D ( I do not really believe this, but it
makes a good story). Now that I feel relatively confident that the
results are accurately presented, I guess I should add them to Charles
Kerschner's roster. I was holding off pending the possibility that
there was either a transcription error or a lab error. Apparenly not.

Whitney Keen

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