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From: Doug McDonald <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] PubMed abstract: large-scale changes on the Y
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 09:56:02 -0600
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Ken Nordtvedt wrote:
> What do you mean "RIa is the most derived ......."? That there are the
> longest chain or/and bush of discovered SNPs in the R1a branch or area?
>


I simply mean that they list 12 SNPs from root to R1a, more
than any other haplogrousp. E3b3 was 11. So yes, they drew
the tree with branch lengths shown, so the longest branch at
the right sticking out is R1a. It's got lots of SNPS more
than the rest of R.

Of course, with these small numbers (12 or fewer) one
expects large fluctuations.

Doug McDonald

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