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From: "adam bradford" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] TMRCA
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 20:35:00 -0500
References: <200702152136.l1FLadHQ023698@mail.rootsweb.com><REME20070215200659@alum.mit.edu>
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I was completely unaware that this rounding confusion was a possibility.
Does this apply to all markers or only certain ones?

On 2/15/07, John Chandler <> wrote:
>
> <snip>


Another possibility,
> which you may have already explored, is that your Estes allele
> is really 11.2 (i.e., exactly halfway between 11 and 12), and the
> rounding off to the "nearest" whole number gave mixed results.
> If you haven't asked Bennett about this possibility, you should.
> If the parentage of the grandchildren is documented by explicit,
> contemporary birth or baptism records, then the confusion idea
> probably won't fly, and that would leave the roundoff ambiguity
> as the next simplest explanation.
>
> John Chandler
>
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