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Wildland
05-25-2012, 08:27 PM
I want to know more about the mtDNA. As a man I get my X from my mother.
As women have two X, does that mean I pass my mothers X to my daughter and she also gets one from my "wife" her mother.

Is it worth doing a mtDNA test as a male or is the autosomol enough?

Sikeliot
05-25-2012, 08:28 PM
A man only passes his y-dna to his sons. A mother passes her mtdna to sons and daughters.

A man does not pass on his mtdna haplogroup.

Wildland
05-25-2012, 09:05 PM
So why do women have two X?

Sikeliot
05-25-2012, 09:06 PM
mtdna is not the X chromosome, it's a mitochondrial DNA.