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From: ellen Levy <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] MtDNA: How settled is the haplogroup M, D, A phylogeny?
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 11:09:05 -0800 (PST)
In-Reply-To: <003501c87ef1$7ca93060$ec0aa8c0@regmed.ru>
Valery:
OK, just to clarify, this M* haplotype is found
currently only among East Asians and Ashkenazi Jews.
Is this correct?
Ellen Coffman
--- Valery <> wrote:
> > Are you seeing any non-Jewish Eastern Europeans or
> > Indians in this group, or is this M* haplotype
> limited
> > strictly right now to Eastern European Jews and
> East
> > Asian groups like the Hmong?
> >
>
> Ellen, the only issue is that SE Asian haplotypes
> are absent from the Europe
> (both Eastern and Western)
> and there is no clues how this type travelled from
> Asia. No problem with
> finding East Asian types in
> the Eastern Europe, that's another story where both
> routes and haplotypes
> are known.
>
>
>
> > When you say you believe it is older branch, do
> you
> > have an age estimate?
>
> Age = Ro (which is equal to 1.3 here) * 20Ky for the
> HVS1 transitions.
> However, the whole network
> consists of only 2 (very populated) branches which
> makes the variance of Ro
> comparable to the value of Ro itself.
> So this "estimation" seems useless.
>
>
>
> Valery
>
>
>
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