[Babase] AMOK Questions

Lacey Maryott lacey.maryott at duke.edu
Thu Jul 10 12:00:27 EDT 2008


Hi All!

     Susan and I have been discussing how to handle 'immigrant male' 
Amok's complicated history. We have found conclusively with the genetic 
paternity analysis Russ did that Amok's parents are BET and NAC.  Given 
Amok's age estimate, the closest of Betty's offspring,  is Billy. The 
difference in BIL's birthdate and AMO's estimate is only 9 mo (which 
speaks volumes to our age estimates by the way) so we feel confident 
concluding that they are one and the same. We want to update AMO's 
biograph data to match BIL's. The affected data would include pid, mom, 
birthdate, matgrp, and bstatus.

BIL's information is as follows:
724
	BIL 	BILLY 	BET5 	1995-02-28 	
0
	M 	
3.00
	1997-12-14 	
0
	
0


AMO's information is as follows:
1130
	AMO 	AMOK 	/NULL/ 	1994-05-26 	
1
	M 	
9.00
	2007-09-08 	
0
	
0


We wanted to make sure that a) babase will allow the maintenance of both 
rows have most of the same information and b) that duplicate pids can 
exist. I think that they can because of the twins cases we have had, but 
wanted to confirm.
Also, should the bioid be changed or maintained?

 It also seems important to be able to note somewhere in babase that 
these individuals are one and the same, and Susan proposes a table 
called 'identity notes' or something to that effect for storage of this 
info.  As we continue doing genetic work, it is likely we will encounter 
other situations where immigrant males will actually be found to be one 
of our own.

If any problems pop out to anyone, please let us know. We are just 
trying to get a feel for whether or not this will work, and whether it 
is the best way to handle the situation.

Thanks!
Lacey

-- 
Lacey Maryott
Alberts Lab
Department of Biology
Duke University
ph: 919-660-7306
fax: 919-660-7293
Lacey.Maryott at duke.edu 



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