This is really quite easy - so please do not think it is too dificult for you.
For an example of a GenBank page, click on this accession number EU130942.
Step 1. Have your mtDNA sequenced.
Step 2. Find the report that shows your mutations
Step 3. Use 'Cut & Paste' to put a copy of your results in an email to me.
Make sure you include the suggested Haplogroup, and the mutations from the HVR2, Coding Region, and HVR1 areas.
(The latest revision of the personal page makes cutting and pasting a little more difficult than before.)
(But it can be done 'line by line'.)
Step 4. Also in the email say:
- Please prepare a submission file from the attached results
- Advise me if you want your name to appear on the GenBank page, normally I will omit it
- Give a racial grouping, if you wish it to appear, e.g. English, Armenian, etc.
- Give a place of origin (birthplace), if you wish it to appear, e.g. USA, Kiev, etc.
Please note that GenBank will only accept a submission from the actual person.
So you cannot send a submission on behalf of someone other than yourself.
Step 5. If you wish, attach a copy of the FASTA file off your FTDNA page - it will be helpful
as it allows me to check the mutations once more. (Note: YOUR FASTA MAY NOT BE AVAILABLE TO YOU)
Step 6. Send me the email.
Step 6. Wait until I send back 'your submission file' (.sqn) - usually within 48 hours.
Step 7. Prepare an email to Dr. Susan Schafer at GenBank.
- attach the submission file (.sqn)
- say the sequence is a full mtDNA sequence
- say the sequence is your own
- say if you are having your name on the submission
Step 8. Send the email
Step 9. Wait for notification that your submission has been accepted and note the accession number and publication date.
Step 10. From the publication date your entry will be available on GenBank.