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From: Doug McDonald <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Back to Hammer's Paper
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 08:56:47 -0500
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Ken Nordtvedt wrote:

> I was not exactly tickled to see my message title and thread about
> Hammer's paper (reference provided to us by Dennis Garvey) hijacked
> by others playing broken records about SNP tests which either don't
> exist yet because the SNPs have not been discovered or are not yet
> for sale to the general public.
>
> So I'll ask my specific question and general question again. I would
> like to share information with any folks who have looked at Hammer's
> chart of derived SNP states for various YCC haplotypes which Butler
> lists with 20 measured STR markers (this Butler list also available
> at a Dennis Garvey website). Specifically, I read Hammer's chart to
> say that for YCC63 there are derived states at both P30 and P40 with
> nucleotides "A" in each case; whereas the ancestral states for those
> two SNPs are "G" in each case?
>
> I am curious about this because a testing company said I was "T at
> P40 and therefore positive".


I will make a suggestion for a benign possibility, just
a suggestion and just a possibility: the testing company
was testing the other strand.

Doug McDonald

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