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From: Louis <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] What to test for?
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 12:56:06 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <6.2.1.2.2.20050601123721.0387fb18@lafn.org>


Hi Robert,

Well, your mother's brother would give you the Y DNA
results of your MATERNAL GRANDFATHER (your mom's
father's line).

Your own Y DNA (which is equivalent to the Y DNA of
your father or one of his brothers) would give you
your PATERNAL GRANDFATHER's Y DNA.

And also, if you test the mtDNA of your mother's
brother, you will get your MATERNAL GRANDMOTHER's
LINE--but this is unnecessary because your mtDNA
(inherited by your mom) will be exactly the same as
your mom's brothers mtDNA. So you can just test your
own mtDNA.

I hope this helps.
Louis Loccisano

Well, that is

--- Robert Davenport <>
wrote:

>
>
> I'm going to test my mother's brother, who is the
> son of my maternal
> grandfather.
>
> If I understand correctly, the only information I
> could obtain from such a
> test, which would be useful to me, would be:
>
> The Y Haplogroup, which would be the same as my
> paternal grandfather.
> The 37 Y Markers, which would be the same as my
> pateranl grandfather.
>
> Is this correct?
>
> Thanks!
>
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