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I think Sharon meant with the initial DNA testing before it was sent off for mitochondrial DNA testing, as it's still under way and we don't know the results for it, because they did a test before they sent it off that was unable to determine if it was Michaela for sure and it matched some of Sharon's DNA, which she said was common, like it matched her blood type and that kind of thing. But the initial DNA test had no matches to her father. Obviously mitochondrial DNA doesn't take into account the father because it is strictly maternal, but what about the initial one where they couldn't determine if it was Michaela? Would it be possible for the initial test to have some matches to her fathers DNA? I'm not really well educated in DNA testing, but I would've thought there would be some matches to her father in the initial test? Correct me if I'm wrong. I understand the mitochondrial one is the deal breaker though, I just found it strange it had no matches to Michaela's father, but it might not need to, I don't know. Michaela might've inherited all her mothers DNA, like blood type, etc.
Its difficult to answer your question without knowing what tests were carried out. However, if their initial testing had shown anything which excluded Michaela as the source of the bone, they wouldn't have moved on to mtDNA testing.