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	One major disadvantage to mtDNA is that it mutates at a slow rate. A person whose mtDNA perfectly matches yours could be related through a common ancestor that lived anytime within the past 500 years. Also the direct maternal line usually has a different surname at every generation so surname projects are useless.		One major disadvantage to mtDNA is that it mutates at a slow rate. A person whose mtDNA perfectly matches yours could be related through a common ancestor that lived anytime within the past 500 years. Also the direct maternal line usually has a different surname at every generation so surname projects are useless.

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