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From: "robert mclaren" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Redrawing the YCC Chart
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 17:10:59 -0500


John,

Actually, you need 99,999. I had my grandson tested and we are 37/37
<grin>.

Bob


> [Original Message]
> From: < (John Chandler)>
> To: <>
> Date: 11/29/2005 3:47:21 PM
> Subject: Re: [DNA] Redrawing the YCC Chart
>
> Bill wrote:
> > Thanks for the Depuy study information. Has anyone done a study where 3
or
> > more generations of the same family men have been tested to determine
if the
> > divergent marker(s) mutation remain "fixed" once they mutated away from
the
> > father ?
>
> It's unlikely such a study would ever be done. It would have to be a
> very BIG study to be of any use (at least 100,000 certified and willing
> grandfather-father-son triples), and a positive result is theoretically
> impossible. Who is going to fund a project like that?
>
> John Chandler
>
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