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From: "JECrain" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] African Y Markers?
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 20:00:32 -0500
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Patrick: Thank you. I have had PC problems today and couldn't do any
downloading, but I'm sure this info will be helpful.

Janet Crain


----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Guinness" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 5:37 AM
Subject: [DNA] African Y Markers?


> 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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