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From: John S Walden <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Re: GENEALOGY-DNA-D Digest V02 #323, Item #11 - WINGFIELD and PRESTON
Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2002 14:10:17 -0400
In-Reply-To: <8718-3D53EEAD-598@storefull-2354.public.lawson.webtv.net>


At 09:32 AM 8/9/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>NOW WHAT DOES THIS TELL
>ME???? You don't suppose the labs are throwing darts and deciding who
>should be related to whom, do you??

Matching 19 out of 24 markers is much the same as two people with the lasts
names
Smithersfielding and Smytherfeldman wondering if they are related
Answer is yes they could be but not likely.

We know what percentage Smith shows up in the USA (It is rare at about
1% of the population.) And we know not ALL Smith families are related.
Think of your markers as a last name. At this time we have no idea at all
what percentage of the population happen to have that set and be
unrelated. We may in a few years
but right now we do not.
So if two sets of markers just happen to match then that increases the odds
the two are related just as when two people named Jones met.

It is mildly interesting but not exciting.

John

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