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From: Clyde Rice <>
Subject: RE: Mutations (was [DNA] Genealogy as we knew it)
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 07:59:47 -0700 (PDT)
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No Michael, not correct, at least according to today's known technology. It does change, but only very, very occasionally. Usually many generations apart, some families more or less often. (Really seldom, not often.)

Clyde Rice

"Michael L. Hébert" <> wrote: Good point. Maybe I will go ahead and use "mutations" and equate it simply
with small changes in the dna. This brings up a question I have. Am I
correct in assuming that no one inherits a perfect copy of their father's Y
chromosome and that there are mutations in every transmission?

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