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From: Doug McDonald <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Verification of JChandler's response
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 09:39:11 -0600
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John Lerch wrote:
>
> PS another question then. If I take them up on their offer to do a SNP,
> will I be put in R1a, or does that rate they quote mean they will
> determine subclades R1a1a (b) (c) etc? (As I understand it R1a and R1a1
> are the same thing?) I ask since upon expanding my profile from 12 to
> 36 with Sorenson, it's pretty clear I am probably R1a as only R1a and a
> few "unknown" come up on unrestricted YSEARCH. Even so, with a minimum
> genetic distance of 11 on 36 markers, I have to wonder. Especially
> since that distance measure is linear without the Bessel fcts computed
> in (or some other iterative function).
>

Since your haplotype is rather unusual, though I agree it is R1a of
some sort, I would eschew both NGS and FTDNA, both of which test only
the most upstream marker, SRY10831, and pay for the EthnoAncestry
R1a subclade test. It is faintly possible that, being rather eastern
in nature, and close to Asia, you may in fact be some sort of
Asian subclade. This is a remote shot, however. Ask your
bank account.

Doug McDonald

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