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From: "Linda A" <>
Subject: Re: [S-I] Joan Young's maternal DNA (O-T query)
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 10:29:20 -0500
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I think the son gets the mtdna from his mother....he just can't pass it on.
So the son that interrupted the female line could be tested.
Linda A

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Subject: Re: [S-I] Joan Young's maternal DNA (O-T query)


> Betty-
>
> No--the interruption of that male line means that your mtDNA wouldn't be
> the
> same. You have to remember that mtDNA is from the mother's EGG--so is only
> passed along from MOTHER's to their children. As soon as you have a male
> in the
> line that transmission is interrupted.
>
> Joan
>
>
> In a message dated 12/20/2008 5:59:18 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> writes:
>
> that interrupts the line of females. But, I would have: Rhoda,
> Mary,
> Clara, Daisy, Elizabeth, and me.
>
> Betty (near Lowell, MA)
>
>
>
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