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From: Doug McDonald <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Checking for a possible Somerled descendent
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 18:09:15 -0500
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Mark MacDonald wrote:

>Please encourage him to expand to 37 markers; we have some who have known
>Somerled lines who have mutated to 24 at 390 but if he isn't a 19 21 that
>would clearly exclude him. He is also close at two variant markers to a
>Campbell carrying apparent Somerled markers who has joined our study.
>
>


Mark: I don't think Campbell, nor even more Michael Justin McDonald, are
Somerled people. The
mutation probabilities are just too small. (of course, if you use the
FTDNA mutation rates,
they are modestly possible, but those rates are just plain wrong.)

Doug McDonald

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