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From: charles <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] HAP-Y-03
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 14:48:24 -0400
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Jody:

The SNP test is what definitively defines the haplogroup. Various
algorithms have been developed which attempt to predict the haplogroup
based on the Y-STR haplotype results. Sometimes the prediction is fuzzy
and it points to more than one haplogroup as close and thus possible.
The SNP test you ordered will clear things up. Plus as more people get
SNP tested, the predictor algorithms based on the associated haplotypes
for the various haplogroups will get better.

Hope this helps.

Charles Kerchner
Kerchner Surname Project Admin
http://www.dnapin.org/
http://www.geneticgenealogydictionary.org/

Jody McKenneyThomson wrote:
> We received yDNA results for my tall, slender, blonde haired, blue eyed
> husband and were surprised to see that his predicted haplogroup is O3! Since
> my husband’s Y-ancestry is pure Scots, we are baffled. We have ordered the
> SNP test to confirm this ‘result’ but in the meantime, would someone please
> comment on this possibility?
>
> Also - specifically, how is the haplogroup predicted? Why would there be
> confusion if he really belongs to another haplogroup?
>
> Thank you.


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