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From: Thomas Krahn <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Doubled Repeats for R1b DYS464
Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2005 20:46:52 +0200
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Ken Nordtvedt wrote:

>Since I can not understand all the technical lingo about what might be going
>on, I have pretty much stuck to looking at the statistics of unusual
>haplotype results at suspect markers such as 464, 459, CDY, and maybe even
>YCAII and 385 in different contexts.
>
>Hope someone else can answer your question in language I can understand. On
>the face of it the "c" and "g" letters suggest to me that a nucleotide (one
>of the 4 basic "letter" molecules of the dna alphabet) has mutated from c to
>g near one of the four alleles (copies) of the 464 marker? What the norm
>is --- cccc? --- I don't know.
>
>Ken
>
>
>
Ken,

The norm is actualy g-g-g-g ! The most interesting fact is, that most
R1b have one combination out of
c-g-c-c
c-c-g-c
c-c-c-g


Thomas

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