  It has been recently suggested by others that one can simultaneously explain
the depletions of solar electron-neutrinos and atmospheric muon-neutrinos along
with a 7 eV neutrino component of mixed dark matter by postulating the
existence of nearly-degenerate 2 eV neutrinos with the correct mixing
parameters. We study this claim in the framework of a simple SO(10)-symmetric
model constructed from the low scale data using a bottom-up procedure recently
advanced by the authors and compare the results with and without degenerate
neutrinos.
