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Hair To Be Auctioned - RJNorton - 06-22-2016 01:31 PM
---A chance to obtain the hair of Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth, Mary Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Gideon Welles, etc.---
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/06/22/buy-lincoln-s-hair-and-his-assassin-s.html
RE: Hair To Be Auctioned - Jim Garrett - 06-22-2016 03:06 PM
Sounds like this is the lock of JWB's hair that was cut by Sgt Petticord.
RE: Hair To Be Auctioned - Thomas Kearney - 06-22-2016 08:10 PM
(06-22-2016 03:06 PM)Jim Garrett Wrote: Sounds like this is the lock of JWB's hair that was cut by Sgt Petticord.
How do we know it's the lock of hair?
RE: Hair To Be Auctioned - ELCore - 06-22-2016 08:14 PM
Dr. John Sotos ought to be very interested in that. Is he a member here?
RE: Hair To Be Auctioned - RJNorton - 06-23-2016 05:10 AM
(06-22-2016 08:14 PM)ELCore Wrote: Dr. John Sotos ought to be very interested in that. Is he a member here?
Lane, several years ago I asked him if he were interested. He said he would join, but he never did. I once read that cut hair is not really good for DNA testing, but I don't recall the details. Maybe my memory is faulty. If true, however, this may explain why Dr. Sotos' search has been for blood samples and not hair.
RE: Hair To Be Auctioned - Anita - 06-23-2016 11:56 AM
(06-23-2016 05:10 AM)RJNorton Wrote:Roger, the root of the hair sample must be present to test for nuclear DNA but cut hair can be tested for mitochondrial DNA.(06-22-2016 08:14 PM)ELCore Wrote: Dr. John Sotos ought to be very interested in that. Is he a member here?
Lane, several years ago I asked him if he were interested. He said he would join, but he never did. I once read that cut hair is not really good for DNA testing, but I don't recall the details. Maybe my memory is faulty. If true, however, this may explain why Dr. Sotos' search has been for blood samples and not hair.
"Can you test hair without the root? Yes. Instead of using nuclear DNA testing, we would use mitochondrial DNA testing. The mitochondrial genome is highly polymorphic or varies greatly from one person to another, making it useful for human identification. Because mitochondrial genes exist in high amounts within a cell they are very useful when analyzing samples that lack nuclear DNA." http://www.forensicdnacenter.com/resources/top-10-forensic-questions.html
RE: Hair To Be Auctioned - RJNorton - 06-23-2016 12:34 PM
Thanks, Anita!! Can mitochondrial DNA testing be used to determine if a person had multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2B?
RE: Hair To Be Auctioned - Gene C - 06-23-2016 12:56 PM
Yes, but there are some side effects
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpSaTrW4leg
RE: Hair To Be Auctioned - ELCore - 06-23-2016 06:33 PM
Thanks, everybody.