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From: "John F. Chandler" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] A Newbie needs helps
Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 14:46 EDT
In-Reply-To: billncony@comcast.net message <001301c1f11b$ae2d4d20$98a5fea9@bechgr01.in.comcast.net> of Wed, 1 May 2002 09:23:30 -0600


Bill wrote:
> I recently received the results of my 24 loci / markers Y-chromosome
> Test (Relative Genetics
> Lab) and I have not found any explanation
> for the "Alpha" values listed,

Ideally, the explanation should have been provided with the report you
received. Those codes are purely private, and only RelGen can tell you
exactly what they mean. A bit of history: when RelGen started giving
reports with numeric repeat counts, they included the warning that these
results were not "CEPH calibrated". Indeed, The Edmund Rice (1638)
Association determined by comparing the results from three different
labs for the same person's DNA that some of RelGen's numbers were at
odds with the other labs (see the announcement to this list about four
months ago and the tabular results on our web site

http://edmund-rice.org/

for all the details). In the meantime, RelGen has been working on that
calibration, but it would appear that DYS385a and b still have problems,
as do YCAIIa and YCAIIb. I deduce that they have succumbed to intense
pressure to send out reports anyhow, to placate their clamoring
customers. When the calibration is done, I assume they will announce
the meanings of those letter codes and will start reporting numeric
results for those markers. Until then, you can think of those codes
as IOU's for calibrated results to come.

> DYS # #Allele
> 385a D
> 385b E
> 388 14
> 389 I 11
> 389 II 28
> 390 22
> 391 10
> 392 11
> 393 13
> 394 (19) 14

Incidentally, I can't help but notice that you have haplotype 2.47 and
therefore almost surely belong to haplogroup 2, which is found widely
across Europe. Oxford Ancestors would tell you this means you have a
Viking heritage, but that's just hype. It probably does mean that your
direct male line is not Welsh or Basque (both of which are 90% composed
of haplogroup 1), but that still leaves a lot of ground.

John Chandler

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