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From: Patrick Guinness <>
Subject: [DNA] African Y Markers?
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 10:37:58 +0000


At 6:21 pm -0500 2/9/02, JECrain wrote:
>A friend of mine said that she was told that if the results of a Y
>Chromosome test were DYS # 390 =Alleles 20 or 21 combined with Dys
>#19 =Alleles 14 or 15, then that is a African signature. I know so
>little about this and searching on the Internet is not helping much.
>Could someone comment on this? Thanks!
>
>Janet Crain

Check out paper on the Lemba by Thomas et al.; download the .pdf from

http://www.ajhg.org/journal/

2000, vol. 66, pp 674-686. On page 680 you'll see Bantu results at 6 loci.

PG

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