http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/r...7-03/1173623880The Discovery Channel show did not give any raw data, but a posting at the
FTDNA forum gave results in this format:
"The book [presumably "The Jesus Family Tomb"] had the following mtDNA
sequences listed:
120
CCAGTAGGAT - Jesus
ACCCACTAGG - Mariamne
130
ATCAACAAAC - Jesus
ATACCAACAA - Mariamne
140 (partial)
CTACCC - Jesus
ACCTAG - Mariamne"
The two sequences are not aligned with each other, but they overlap. I
realigned them and deduced the polymorphisms by comparing the fragments with the
CRS. You will need to view this in a fixed width font (or look at this post in
the archives) to make the letters and numbers line up:
__CCAGTAGGATATCAACAAACCTACCC Jesus
ACCCACTAGGATACCAACAAACCTAG__ Mariamne
_____x_______x___________x__
acccactaggataccaacaaacctaccc CRS starting at 16265
5678901234567890123456789012
Jesus 16270G 16278T
Mariamne 16290G
I ran the sequences at BLAST. The polymorphisms are common enough that they
show up in multiple haplogroups (parallel mutations), so the sequences are too
short to make any statement about a haplogroup. The only conclusion we can
draw is that the two sequences are not matrilineally related.
Ann Turner