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From: "Lawrence Mayka" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] AFC; Dogger; S21
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 10:00:01 -0500
In-Reply-To: <3b2a446a0610160736g60da6b8fp80594df5c3e065ff@mail.gmail.com>


> From:
> [mailto:] On Behalf Of
> Sasson Margaliot
> DID the people stayed in one place for hundreds and hundreds
> of generations because they wanted to make the work of
> genetic genealogists easier?

This *has* often occurred in history, but it should then (ideally) leave the
telltale sign of a localized subclade that is genetically very distant from
everyone else.

For this purpose, the full 67-marker suite seems best. Even 37-marker
results often appear contaminated by random convergence.


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