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From: "Ken Nordtvedt" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] NPE
Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 06:51:05 -0600
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> Ken
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> Hmmm...a higher mutation rate might have been a nice thing to find.
> Kirsten

Well, you may get your wish and our wish. It seems the total y covered only
25 million positions of the y, instead of all of it when chalking up those
2650 differences between an I donor and a R/G donor HUGO.

If we assume the split between I and R/G on average occured about 36,000
years ago I get an average mutation rate of
4 / 100 million. That's twice what I have been assuming for walk the y
output volume.

We could be pleasantly surprised.






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