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From: "Pat Elder" <>
Subject: RE: [Melungeon] Genetic Markers
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 18:25:51 -0500
In-Reply-To: <20021222211349.35933.qmail@web41406.mail.yahoo.com>


I thought maybe it meant exotic in that it couldn't be identified. What else
is there besides European, Asian, NA or African? Maybe Australian
aborigines? Have they classified them yet? I know at one time some
scientists thought the aborigines were a branch who left Indian more years
ago than I can count so I probably incorrectly assumed they were Caucasian.


Pat

-----Original Message-----
From: Brent Kennedy [mailto:]
Sent: Sunday, December 22, 2002 4:14 PM
To:
Subject: RE: [Melungeon] Genetic Markers


Pat,

It certainly would mean more at 300 years than 35,000
years, and thankfully the rate and type of mutations
can often tell us that. "Exotic" is simply the term
American geneticists use to describe any DNA that is
not European, Eurasian, Native American, or African.
At least that's what Kevin Jones said in his
presentation, and it coincides with how
anthropologists, etc. use the term as well,
espesically for the Appalachian region.

Brent


--- Pat Elder <> wrote:
> Thanks Ernie. I understand the percentage part now.
>
> I still don't understand how you can tell when the
> particular ethnicity
> entered the lineage though. It still seems that the
> entry date would mean
> more at 300 years than at 35,000 years.
>
> I'm not even going to ask what "exotic" means in
> this case. (What does it
> mean?)
>
> Still dense in Tennessee.
> Pat
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ernest Hurst [mailto:]
> Sent: Sunday, December 22, 2002 3:12 PM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [Melungeon] Genetic Markers
>
>
> Pat
>
> I was under the impression that the percentages
> mentioned by Dr. Jones
> referred to percentages of the individuals tested.
> In other words, if 100
> were tested, then 5 of them (5%) had African
> American ancestors, 5 had
> Native American, 7 had "exotic" and 83% had no
> "other" ancestry other than
> European of some sort. Maybe Brent can clarify this
> for everyone.
>
> Ernie
>
>
>
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