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Mary White

Mary White

Irish Politician

Mar 25, 2025

CharlesHOST
27:25
Maybe.
27:26
It's fairly easy to get DNA sequence from mitochondria.
27:30
Um, even if it's kinda degraded, it depends on how degraded it is.
27:34
But the problem is, is that cousins might have identical mitochondrial DNA.
27:39
Siblings probably have identical mitochondrial DNA.
27:44
Mothers and children have identical mitochondrial DNA.
27:48
So you can't say, "I'm 99.99999% sure that this mitochondrial DNA came from this person," because it could have come from that person's sister or brother or cousin or whatever, mother, whatever.
CharlesHOST
29:07
Uh, even so, you could identify a suspect's family from that DNA, correct?

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