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From: Doug McDonald <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Y-SNP S22 Available
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 11:21:08 -0600
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> writes:
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>> “Ethnoancestry is pleased to announce the launch of a new SNP, S22,
>>which unites haplogroups I and J to the exclusion of G, H and K, within the
>>F
>>supergroup.


OK, it's now happened.

So what to do with nomenclature?

We really don't want to rename I and J as they now exist. Since we as
yet, apparently, don't have anybody in this group and not in I or J,
we don't have to worry about it ... it just appears as a blank on the
tree, like the union of D and E does.

In this case, a simple solution, however, is available, if rather
messy: make this newfound group F2, and I and J become subgroups
of F2. If somebody is found who has S22 but is not I or J, they
would be F2.

This would not work if somebody was found who was YAP/M145/M213
but not either M174 or SRY4064/P29/M96. Presumably we would
then resort to the kludge used by MTDNA and call these folks DE*.

What do others think?

Doug Mcdonald

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