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Subject: Re: [DNA] mutations every 4 generations 50%?
Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 10:56:46 EDT



In a message dated 5/22/2005 7:32:22 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
writes:

Half the time a mutation in a
43 marker haplotype is seen between the two cousins and half the time the
cousins still match.



This is really "the other side of the coin" of my interpretation --
Obviously the 50% which has no mutation after 4 generations still match. And equally
obviously that 50% will have some kind of distribution across the number of
generations to the first observed mutation - 5, 6, 7, etc.

Anne


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