Results
The purpose of a Full Mitochondria Sequence test is to: a) more accurately establish the actual mutation rate of the female inherited mtDNA; b) more accurately place the female inherited DNA of all project participants on the U5 tree; c) apply statistics to more accurately predict when two people who match identically likely shared a MRCA (Most Recent Common Ancestor); d) allow the U5 Project to have results that will be ‘in hand’ when more advanced scientific papers are published in the future.
All of the participants who have ordered full sequences have consented to share them with the U5 Project. Their results will not be made public, but we have added these sequences to the full mtDNA sequence data from published scientific studies. We are now able to more accurately place the men and women with matching HVR1 and HVR2 results on the worldwide U5 tree. We can assign many of them a subclade such as U5b1b. More full sequence data in the future will allow us to accurately determine the subclade of all U5 Project participants.