A cousin of mine has a mutation called A538M on HVR2 which distinguishes her from over 160 kits with whom she has a genetic distance of 1. Is there any reason not to simply treat her as part of that group and is there anything significant about A538M? Israel Pickholtz Jerusalem allmyforeparents.blogspot.com

M is a special code for a mixture of mtDNA molecules, some with the CRS value of A and some with a C. This mixture is called heteroplasmy. It's sort of like a mutation in progress. You can include her in the group. FTDNA only reports heteroplasmy when it reaches a level of 20%. It's conceivable that other members have the same mutation at a lower level. http://www.jogg.info/pages/21/SatiableCuriosity.pdf On Sat, Nov 4, 2017 at 7:05 PM, [email protected] <[email protected] > wrote: > A cousin of mine has a mutation called A538M on HVR2 which distinguishes > her from over 160 kits with whom she has a genetic distance of 1. > > Is there any reason not to simply treat her as part of that group and is > there anything significant about A538M? > > Israel Pickholtz > Jerusalem > allmyforeparents.blogspot.com > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >