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From: "Ron Scott" <>
Subject: Re: Neanderthal mtDNA
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 14:40:57 -0500
References: <44EB2001.8020604@charter.net>


List,

I've updated my mtDNA Mutation Distribution Chart to include the six GenBank
HVR1 Neanderthal samples.

If anyone is interested, please contact me, and I'll email the zipped file.

Cheers,
Ron

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Lerch" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 10:17 AM
Subject: re neanderthal mtDNA


> Does anyone know definitively to what standard they compare the
> Neanderthal mtDNA? IOW are they comparing it to CaRS or are they
> comparing it to chimps, gorillas, etc? I presume it must be to some human
> mtDNA--else the number of data points would be too high; plus chimps are
> presumably no closer to ancestral mtDNA of neanderthals than are humans
> and indeed are expected to be much further. But I don't know for sure. I
> know if I were reporting Neanderthal mtDNA I would create a fictitious
> human who was an intersection of all human DNA with Neanderthal DNA so if
> 16447 e.g. were mostly A (including whatever they're using now) but
> occasionally it is T and say it's usually T in all the mtDNA Neanderthal
> we've found, the standard would be 16447 instead of 16447A.
> JAL
> Along the same lines, I've asked this question before. But it seems that
> no one is willing to predict haplogroups from HVR data. I would think
> that they may not be able to give a prediction, but they ought to be able
> to say something along the lines of E.G. "Anyone with an unaltered CaRS
> might be H1...Hx, or U1...Uy; but they are not Ax nor......" (not meant
> to be realistic example just a reasonable format.)
>
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