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From: "Katherine Hope Borges" <>
Subject: RE: Uploading a complete mitochondrial sequence to NCBI GenBank
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 07:36:36 -0800


Dear Ted,

At the Family Tree DNA conference last November, a presenter shared that the
MEGA mtDNA test is the equivalent (for genealogical purposes) to the Y-DNA
37-marker test. I will have to wait for the time that the MEGA test is in
the same price range as the 37-marker test before I can take the test
myself, but I truly do hope that other MEGA testers will follow your example
and upload their results to NCBI. As the database builds, we may finally be
able to utilize the database for those long lost female line paper trails in
much the same way we currently do with the publicly accessible
Y-DNA databases.

My deepest thanks and gratitude to you for being a visionary and pioneer.

With best regards,
Katherine


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