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Subject: Re: [DNA] Newbie: National Geographic, Relative Genetics, DNA Heritage,Family Tree DNA etc
Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 15:57:32 +0000
I can answer this Ken. I coordinate the Shetland Islands Y and mtDNA projects. I am absolutely dependent on their "Haplogroup Database" for interpreting the data in terms of geographic matches. It was via this route that I learned that my R1a uncle had no matches in Europe other than Iceland and Norway, and all other matches were scattered in Central Asia, China, India, and Mongolia. This led to my theory (thanks also to the Q and K data) that there was a migration circa 420AD of Hunnish people from the Altai region of Central Asia to Scandinavia. Further research in the pop gen of all the counties and regions from Norway to the outer reaches of Mongolia, the genetics of the Norwegian Fjord Horse and the Mongolian Horse, archaeology, linguistics, and the scant historical record has entirely supported this proposed migration. Only FTDNA's wonderful SNP tested databases from the Hammer lab at the U of Arizona could have done this for me. They are the only firm that offe!
rs the world - wide SNP tested databases that are automatically compared to our Y-STR scores so we can see the present day geographical distribution of our haplotypes.
David F.
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> Bob, Would you explain what you mean about FTDNA's "emphasis on ancient
> ancestry"? I consider them rather weak concerning that aspect of their
> business, so am curious?
>
> Ken
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