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Subject: Re: [DNA] Is this the most common mtDNA motif known?
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 11:50:25 EDT


In a message dated 07/29/05 8:34:55 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
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> The next most frequently encountered are 16126C (304 instances) and 073G
> (578 instances). But bear in mind that over a third of the motifs (n=662)
> did not test HVR2. The counts for 263G, 315.1C and 073G should probably all
> be scaled up about 50-55 percent to reflect reality.

073G will be a very common difference, found in most people who are not H or
V, and in a few who are. The table of haplogroup motifs at Macaulay's site
demonstrates this with a special column for "73 status."

http://www.stats.gla.ac.uk/~vincent/founder2000/motif.html

Ann Turner


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