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rcoope23,
CarlK mentioned on a thread for a different Jane Doe that LE is confident this doe is Mindi, however they can not prove it because she has no living maternal relatives, and her dental records have been lost.
It would seem to me if there is zero chance for a definitive match-up, Mindi should be removed from doenetwork because anyone else who comes across Mindi is going to waste time trying to match her with a UID only to find out it's impossible.
Why waste anyone's time when so many others need to be matched that have the potential for being matched?
I guess no system is perfect, but when room for improvement is seen, the initiative should be taken.
I guess if LE really wanted to (and it was possible/legal?) they could exhume one of Mindi's maternal pre-deceased relatives, if they knew anything about her family or if anyone was able to help them determine who to exhume to get a sample from. Kind of unconventional but it would get the sample they needed.
He was also a suspect in the death of Mindy's mother in 1984.
From what I understand of mtDNA, it's passed on from a mother to all of her children. So the relatives of Mindy that would have the same mtDNA are her full siblings, mother, full siblings of mother, maternal grandmother, her full siblings, and any of maternal grandmother's sister's children, etc., etc.
Wish I still had my ancestry.com account. Are we sure that somewhere in time there is no living female relative of the same mtDNA line? Even if it is someone farther up in the family tree who may not have known Mindy? From what I understand, the rate of mutation for mtDNA is not rapid....is it not entirely possible that some fourth cousin could have the same mtDNA profile as Mindy?
The article is incorrect. It should have said that DNA from a maternal blood relative would tell for sure.
They were unable to extract nucDNA from the unidentified remains. All they have is mtDNA. Mindy's mother died when she was a baby, and they are unable to locate anyone on the maternal side of Mindy's family. Without a maternal relative they cannot do a mtDNA comparison.
Mindy's aunt and half-sister are both from the father's side of the family, and their nucDNA is entered in CODIS. However, samples from paternal relatives will enable CODIS to compare to UID's for whom they have developed nucDNA profiles.
Therefore, they are at a standstill. They can't find dental records for Mindi. They can't find any of Mindi's maternal relatives to do a mtDNA comparison. And they don't have a nucDNA sample on the UID to do a nucDNA comparison to her paternal relatives.
Carl, I found Mindi's mother's maiden name I have a decent shot at contacting someone from Mindi's mother's family. She had at least one sister (who might be deceased) but who are we looking for? ANYONE related by blood to Mindi's mother or only females related by blood to the mother? does it matter how far removed (i.e. any cousin from the mother's side)?