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From: "R. Stevens" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] mtDNA Haplogroup U5 Question
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 16:45:16 -0500
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----- Original Message -----
From: "O. W. Odom" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2007 2:21 AM
Subject: Re: [DNA] mtDNA Haplogroup U5 Question


> Rich,
>
> According to Ian's chart that you mention, your 16256T puts you in U5a,
> but
> I don't think you are in U5a1, which, according to Ron Scott, will be
> defined in the new MitoMap by 15218 and, according to Ian's chart, also by
> 16192 and 16399, neither of which you have. Instead, it looks as if you
> are
> in another, as yet unnamed, subclade of U5a: the one defined partially by
> 16294T and 16526A. But, very interestingly, it also looks as if your
> results, for the first time, split this subclade since you do not have
> 16114A, which nearly always accompanies 16294T and 16526A (16192T also
> often is present in this subclade, but this location seems to be a
> frequent
> mutator, undergoing parallel and back mutations). So your results make it
> seem likely that mutations 16294T and 16526A occurred first, establishing
> an intermediate subclade. Then some members of this intermediate subclade
> (including myself) picked up the 16114A mutation and others, exemplified
> by
> you, acquired the 16223T mutation. It would be of great interest to see
> whether you have the coding region mutations 13827G and 13928C, which
> heretofore have always been present in this subclade of U5a.
>
> You mentioned your results to me once before, but at that time I didn't
> fully appreciate the novelty of them. I hope you will be able to get the
> mt
> FGS in the future.
>
> Obed
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Thanks, Obed. I plan to get the FGS eventually, but right now I have too
many y-dna fish to fry.

Who knows, though? Maybe some extra discretionary money will come my way
(yeah, sure), and I can get the FGS sooner rather than later.

Rich

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