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From: "John T. Nichols" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] GeneTree ethnicity calculator
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 22:59:43 -0500
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Connee,

You're probably not doing anything incorrectly. I used the calculator
with every variation of the allowed markers and with and without the
suggested Jobling corrections. I can claim just about any ethnicity
listed based on the displayed percentages. Not knowing what is in their
data base or how the calculator actually works or expects in the way of
input I have no way of assessing the reliability of the results. I do
know that in the male line we are as AMH as it gets however. We are not
South East Asian as one of the combinations entered suggested as the
most likely. With the Jobling corrections applied we did come up as
European as the most likely but not by much over Indian.

John T. Nichols
Manassas, VA

wrote:
>
> I just received the results of my nephew's Brown y-chromosome test with
> Oxford Ancestors. I went to GeneTree's site and found what they called their
> ethnicity calculator. I put in the results on 5 markers and the numbers, and
> I thought they would tell me which ethnic group my Brown family probably was.
> But, I got a chart and bar graph indicating the highest number of 18% was to
> Indian. I know that cannot be my family. Am I interpreting the ethnicity
> calculator incorrectly? Connee
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