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From: "David Wilson" <>
Subject: RE: [DNA] The Wonder of it all -- mtDNA [Y haplogroup]
Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 08:48:06 -0700
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Let me go back to Lloyd's original statement, which I can't quite grasp: I
don't think FTDNA even SNP tests the Y-chromosome for R1a1a, except maybe on
a custom request basis. Was that perhaps a typo for R1a? In addition,
Lloyd's haplotype at Ysearch (UFBVM) looks like pretty standard R1b to me --
not modal at a few places, but not far from it either.
So I'm not sure what it was that Lloyd actually heard from the company, but
I don't think it had to do with the Y-chromosome. Lloyd, did you have your
mtDNA tested through them? Could they have mentioned a Haplogroup H or U for
mtDNA that was reported as "R" in your email? In that case this question
really is about mtDNA, but with the wrong major designator.
David Wilson
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Subject: Re: [DNA] The Wonder of it all -- mtDNA [Y haplogroup]
In a message dated 05/13/05 3:12:36 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
writes:
> A short time back FTDNA advised me that my mtDNA designation was
> changed from R1b to R1a1a. Which is nice, but what does it all mean?
That would be your Y-chromosome haplogroup, not your mtDNA haplogroup. As to
what it "means," FTDNA includes general descriptions about the origins of
the
haplogroup. However, I'm a bit surprised that you went from R1b to R1a1a.
Have
you uploaded your results to Ysearch? If so, please give us the record ID so
we can take a look at them.
I did report one case last year where R1a was changed to R1b. The results
were not close to the modal haplotype for either haplogroup, and I
speculated
that the multi-copy marker DYS385a/b might have added to the difficulty in
guesstimating the haplogroup. This is a long URL which ends in +F
http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ifetch2?/u1/textindices/G/GENEALOGY
-DNA+2003+904218602783+F
Ann Turner
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