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From: Jonathan Day <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Just got my Genographic Project results
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 21:24:08 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <000601c5cbb9$a4abadb0$71509045@Ken1>


Thanks! That is extremely interesting. I am going to
have to look up this form of I1a in considerably more
depth, from the looks of things - you've given me an
excellent place to start looking for more information.

--- Ken Nordtvedt <> wrote:

> I don't know what or where you got the I1a haplotype
> #1 but it is not the
> Scandinavian form of I1a; what you quoted were the
> AngloSaxon I1a normal
> repeat values. You have the Norse or Scandinavian
> form of I1a almost
> exclusively found up there in Scandinavia and the
> other places of the world
> they settled. Your DYS392 = 12 is the only unusual
> value. Your 16 at 389-2
> should be added to the 389-1 value to get 28, which
> is how other testing
> companies quote the result. So you are the norm.
>
> The point is that there is a fundamental schism in
> I1a --- German or
> continental I1a and Scandinavian I1a.
>
> Anyway, your haplotype with high probability came
> from Norway, Sweden, or
> Denmark at some point in the past --- the 23,14,15
> at 390, 385a,b is the
> tipoff.





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