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Subject: Re: [DNA] Inference from Eye Color? (now number of Y genes)
Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2008 08:33:50 EST
In a message dated 11/1/2008 9:34:58 PM Pacific Standard Time,
writes:
> But I am surprised nobody took the bait and debated my
> comment about YDNA being mostly junk. Yes the STR
> sequences we follow are mostly innocuous, but the Y
> chromosome actually has 263 genes on it according to
> 23andMe.
Hmm, that's a larger number than I typically read about. Some of those might
be pseudo-genes, e.g LOC442479 is listed as that if you expand on the locus
and look it up in Entrez Gene.
Ann Turner
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