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From: "Gary Corbett" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] You heard it here first: Jim Watson is H!!!!!!
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 00:33:29 -0500
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If she's the reference,then everything is compared to HER,would be my guess.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Mandaville" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2007 12:31 AM
Subject: Re: [DNA] You heard it here first: Jim Watson is H!!!!!!


> I do not understand what is meant by "she is used as CRS". Does it
> mean that in this application an "entry" (so to speak) is called a
> "CRS"?
>
> J
>
>
>
>
> >I think it something like Common Reference Sequence. As the first mtDNA
> >sequence was an H and she is used as CRS.
> >
> >Jim Mandaville wrote:
> >
> >>Ah, I thrive on heresy, Ann! (but first tell this newbie what a
> >>"CRS" is ....
> >>
> >>J
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>With apologies to John McEwan for plagiarizing his subject line, and
thanks
> >>>to him for pointing the way. My subject line assumes I know what I'm
> >>>doing with
> >>>the trace archives, though.
> >>>
> >>>I ran BLAST on a short sequence around 7028, which is C in haplogroup H
> >>>(where the CRS is located) and T in all other haplogroups (barring a
> >>>parallel or
> >>>reverse mutation). The top matches (?date sorted?) were from
> >>>"Project Jim" (with
> >>>numerous traces containing my query, some on the complementary strand,
which
> >>>confused me at first).
> >>>
> >>>Watson matches the CRS at 7028, and would therefore be in haplogroup H.
It
> >>>took me most of the evening to figure out just that one base. I'm
> >>>not familiar
> >>>with any specialized tools to automate the process -- maybe Thomas
Krahn has
> >>>some ideas?
> >>>
> >>>Ann Turner
> >>>
> >>>
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