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What is the greatest number of changes you have ever found in a mtDNA sequence?

April 26, 2017changes mtDNA sequence

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What is the greatest number of changes you have ever found in a mtDNA sequence?

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• We have a lady from South America on our database whose mtDNA sequence contains 14 changes compared to the Cambridge Reference Sequence. This places her in Layla’s clan, the most ancient clan mother known, whose descendents live mostly (but not exclusively) in Africa today.