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Subject: Re: [DNA] mtdna question
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 06:57:38 EDT


In a message dated 9/20/2008 10:04:31 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
writes:

> I was wondering about the matches at genetree. They give you matches on
> your Region 1-2-3, but not the control region... If I've stated that correctly.
>
> What I'd like to ask is, If My mtdna matches exactly another person, but
> neither of us has tested the control region are we really a match?

GeneTree tests the entire control region, which contains HVR1-HVR2-HVR3. What
FTDNA calls HVR2 also contains HVR3. Here's a chart from SMGF that shows the
bases covered under the different labels for different companies.

http://www.smgf.org/mtdna/locations.jspx

However, Ancestry.com appears to be reporting just the region that falls
under the classical definition of HVR1 & HVR2 (that would be the same as the old
DNA-Fingerprint in the chart above). I have no idea why they're doing it that
way -- surely they are testing more. I sent a query but received no reply.

If you've had your entire control region tested, do you have any mutations
that fall outside Ancestry's range?

Or come to think of it --- did you mean the CODING region, which you only get
if you order the FGS sequence at FTDNA? It's quite possible to have a perfect
match in the control region and be quite different in the coding region.

Ann Turner

Ann Turner




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