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From: "Anatole Klyosov" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Anatole's method
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 06:29:04 -0400


Dennis Wright quoted:

>>Anatole wrote:
>>However, I prefer 0.09 mut/gen/haplotype, not 0.12 for 37-marker haplotypes for many cases.
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... and wrote:

>It's this type of 'adjustment' to force the results to fit the hypothesis that led to Zhivotovsky mutation rates being discarded by
the genetic community.

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My response:

Is it ALL (??) you highlighted from all the data provided??

I just try to understand why in some (infrequent) cases CDYb is so "hyperactive". When it is understood (by me, at least) we might consider those as two (probably) different lineages, and treat them separately. I suspect that in cases of that "hyperactivity" we in fact count mutations in this locus "across the lineages". Or we can drop it from calculations altogether.

I did not get a connection to "Zhivotovsky mutation rates". They are related to population studies, not genealogical ones. They are not "discarded by the genetic community", they are accepted by population geneticists. Unfortunately, they are not discarded by DNA genealogists, who work with particular lineages, since they continue to "divide by 0.00069", getting "fantastische results".


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