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From: "Glen Todd" <>
Subject: RE: [DNA] {Bonnie} an unexpected haplogroup result
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2006 08:40:26 -0700
In-Reply-To: <442E9A47.4020909@sbcglobal.net>


> This is a bit off topic I suppose, but I noticed an
> interesting result in looking at Greenspan's 12 marker
> CMH (CMH-12) haplotypes versus genetic distance (GD):
>
> CMH-12 at GD 0: I cases = 0
> CMH-12 at GD 1: I cases = 0
> CMH-12 at GD 2: I cases = 0
> CMH-12 at GD 3: I cases = 1
> CMH-12 at GD 4: I cases = 2
> CMH-12 at GD 5: I cases = 44
> CMH-12 at GD 6: I cases = 160
>
> As one moves away from the CMH-12, the number of I haplotype cases
> increases rapidly.
> Al

Al;

Why would you expect to see anything different? My understanding of CMH,
either in the -6 or -12 version, is that it is exclusively a J phenomenon.
If the theory of the meaning of CMH has any validity, it would have come
into existence many thousands of years after the I/J split.

Glen

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