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From: "robert mclaren" <>
Subject: RE: [DNA] Turning genotypes into phenotypes
Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 19:49:09 -0500


Ken,

Us R1b's cannot help it if the girls dig us. Sorry about that <grin>,

Welcome back. I'm about to go away for a little over a week on a cruise.

Bob


> [Original Message]
> From: Ken Nordtvedt <>
> To: <>
> Date: 1/3/2006 7:25:22 PM
> Subject: [DNA] Turning genotypes into phenotypes
>
> I just had a funny thought on rereading my last sentence in a previous
> message.
>
>
>
> Large regions of the dna material, especially in the Y chromosome, are
> > thought to be close to junk dna, not coding for anything important. If
> > so, their mutations should be neutral from a selection perspective.
> >
> > Ken
>
>
> Suppose in the future this genetic genealogy hobby gets out of hand and
> sweeps the singles crowd. You are talking to a gal at a mixer and
> eventually ask her for a date. She says: "what's your haplogroup? I
only
> date R1b guys." With sufficient amount of such attitude from the
opposite
> sex, us I1a guys would eventually become history.
>
> Ken
>
>
>
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