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From: "Daniel Jenkins" <>
Subject: RE: [DNA] R1a ?
Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2005 20:33:24 -0500
In-Reply-To: <LPBBIOAAMGMFKIJPLJBCIEKLDKAA.dclwilson@earthlink.net>


David , Richard, and Whit,

In addition to prior mail, Mr. Greenspan aslo advised that lab doesn't
report G-A mutation because it is binary.

Dan Jenkins

>From: "David Wilson" <>
>Reply-To:
>To:
>Subject: RE: [DNA] R1a ?
>Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 16:49:03 -0800
>
>Forwarded from Whit, who undoubtedly wanted this to go the list where
>Richard could see it.
>
>David W.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Whit Athey [mailto:]
>Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2005 1:51 PM
>To: 'David Wilson'
>Subject: RE: [DNA] R1a ?
>
>
>Dear David (Wilson) and Richard,
>
>Thanks, David, for digging out my earlier post on this. I was in a hurry
>when I first saw Richard's question and didn't have time to look for it or
>rewrite it.
>
>Note that I may have been wrong about the SRY10831.2 result being called
>"positive" by FTDNA if you are in R1a. I still don't know the convention
>for sure, but perhaps someone else on the list could comment who has had
>the
>test and knows how they called the result and the haplogroup. I thought
>that the whole reason for adding the ".2" on the end of the marker name was
>so that you could say that the result was positive for the test when you
>were in R1a. It looks a little funny to say that the test for a haplogroup
>is negative when you're in that haplogroup. However, that may actually be
>the convention if David Faux's note on the subject is correct (or maybe
>David misspoke in his note concerning what Bennett had said). In the case
>of SRY10831 it may make more sense to provide the actual status at that
>marker, either an A or a G, as Anne (I believe) suggested, rather than a
>"positive" or "negative," because whether positive or negative is reported,
>you'll always wonder if they meant the opposite.
>
>Whit
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: David Wilson [mailto:]
>Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2005 2:56 PM
>To:
>Subject: Re: [DNA] R1a ?
>
>Richard,
>
>I sense that your specific question may not have been directly addressed by
>the responses so far. Here's a link to a post by Whit Athey in early
>December that addresses the SRY10831 locus and the mutations there.
>
>http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/GENEALOGY-DNA/2004-12/1101951774
>
>Also, David Faux addressed the issue of M17 a little more fully in a post
>back then.
>
>http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/GENEALOGY-DNA/2004-12/1101935718
>
>Hope this helps,
>
>David W.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From:
>Sent: Jan 1, 2005 7:35 PM
>To:
>Subject: [DNA] R1a ?
>
>TO: Anyone in the group with the knowledge.
>
>What does the SNP results of SRY10831.2- really mean.
>
>Richard Williamson
>Tucson, AZ
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