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From: "Ken Nordtvedt" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Back to Hammer's Paper
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 15:30:11 -0600
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I'm not sure what to make of a triple "they know it" without explanation why
you are so sure? Do you perchance work at the lab in question?

The whole process of receiving a report involves the lab work, the sending
of some numbers or letters or graphs to persons who records these, to a
transcription of this information into a report that you are positive or
negative for the SNP. In light of your last sentence, my reported "T" then
is quite strange --- neither ancestral or derived by the academic paper
standard, yet it "always refers to strand A..." as you say.


----- Original Message -----
From: "David M. Lawrence" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 3:15 PM
Subject: Re: [DNA] Back to Hammer's Paper


> Yes, I've been trying to say they know which strand they are reading.
> They know which direction they are reading. They know it, they know it,
> they know it.
>
> A mutation at P40 will have an effect on the complementary strand --
> that's a given considering the structure of the molecule. But the
> mutation always refers to strand A, not strand B.
>
> OK?
>
> Dave
>


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