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From: "Glen Todd" <>
Subject: RE: [DNA] deceased person's sample
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 21:18:17 -0600
In-Reply-To: <000301c6adff$d0df7910$6401a8c0@HP>


> Hello Nelda,
>
> I had no idea this was possible. Thanks for letting me (et
> al.) know. I purchased the test and am the contact, but I
> am also my father's sole heir, so either way, I have legal
> ownership of the sample.

This is an interesting topic. Do we have a lawyer on the list who could
speak to this? My uncle Windsor is an interesting E3b1-M78. I'm the
point of contact (and paid for his initial and deep clade tests). Windsor
is in his mid eighties and has no children (he married quite late in life),
so as his sister's son I'm one of the closest blood relatives.

This seems to me to be a legal question that's worth investigating, since it
could potentially affect a lot of people's projects and there's probably a
decided shortage of case law (since the whole of DNA technology is only a
few decades old). Opinions, anybody?

Glen

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