If I recall correctly, the match reports aren't quite symmetrical when heteroplasmy is involved. The person with the heteroplasmic mutation can see people who don't have a mutation at that position, but not vice versa. Ann Turner On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 8:07 AM, Janis L Gilmore via < genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com> wrote: > I have been not done much with mtDNA, focussing more on atDNA and Y-DNA. > As a result, I have just noticed (though we tested several years ago), that > my mother and I do not appear on one another’s match list at FTDNA. > However, our list of top matches is identical, including the genetic > distances from those matches. > > Is this just a technical error on the part of FTDNA? Heteroplasmy was > suggested to me, but that wouldn’t be the case if our matches and genetic > distances are the same, would it? > > Janis Walker Gilmore > Pawleys Island, SC > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GENEALOGY-DNA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

I just got a note from a person who associated with FTDNA who is looking into this. Janis will probably hear directly about the situation. Ann On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 3:19 PM, Ann Turner <dnacousins@gmail.com> wrote: > If I recall correctly, the match reports aren't quite symmetrical when > heteroplasmy is involved. The person with the heteroplasmic mutation can > see people who don't have a mutation at that position, but not vice versa. > > Ann Turner > > On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 8:07 AM, Janis L Gilmore via < > genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com> wrote: > >> I have been not done much with mtDNA, focussing more on atDNA and Y-DNA. >> As a result, I have just noticed (though we tested several years ago), that >> my mother and I do not appear on one another’s match list at FTDNA. >> However, our list of top matches is identical, including the genetic >> distances from those matches. >> >> Is this just a technical error on the part of FTDNA? Heteroplasmy was >> suggested to me, but that wouldn’t be the case if our matches and genetic >> distances are the same, would it? >> >> Janis Walker Gilmore >> Pawleys Island, SC >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> GENEALOGY-DNA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >> the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > >