Comments on: The Measure of a Woman (or a Man) http://www.thegeneticgenealogist.com/2007/07/24/the-measure-of-a-woman-or-a-man/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-measure-of-a-woman-or-a-man Adding DNA to the Genealogist's Toolbox Sun, 05 May 2013 06:30:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Blaine Bettinger, Ph.D. http://www.thegeneticgenealogist.com/2007/07/24/the-measure-of-a-woman-or-a-man/comment-page-1/#comment-287 Blaine Bettinger, Ph.D. Wed, 25 Jul 2007 13:28:10 +0000 http://www.thegeneticgenealogist.com/2007/07/24/the-measure-of-a-woman-or-a-man/#comment-287 Ann – thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment. You make a great point about all the previous literature using the CRS – as I recall, even the scientists who released the rCRS adopted some unusual fixes so they wouldn’t upset all the literature that cited the CRS. And thank you for the typo fix!

]]> By: Ann Turner http://www.thegeneticgenealogist.com/2007/07/24/the-measure-of-a-woman-or-a-man/comment-page-1/#comment-282 Ann Turner Wed, 25 Jul 2007 00:10:01 +0000 http://www.thegeneticgenealogist.com/2007/07/24/the-measure-of-a-woman-or-a-man/#comment-282 I enjoyed that article, too, but I’m a bit skeptical that the “consensus sequence” will replace the CRS. There’s just too much literature that has reported differences from the CRS. I use the analogy of zero degrees longitude — that is a completely arbitrary starting point, but everything can be described in relation to it.

If we did use the consensus sequence as a starting point, then two people chosen at random would differ FROM EACH OTHER at an average of 2 x 21.6 nucleotides, or about 43.

The number of “private” mutations is encouraging for genetic genealogists hoping to narrow down their pool of matches to the closest relatives.

One small typo — the rCRS differs from the consensus at 315+C (315.1C as genealogy companies report it), not 325+C.

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