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From: Doug McDonald <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] R1a Modal Haplotype from Whit Athey's Haplogroup Predictor
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 07:16:41 -0500
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Ken Nordtvedt wrote:
> I have a collection of at least half a dozen modal haplotypes for
> different varieties of R1a. So I don't really understand the usefulness
> for trying to construct a modal haplotype for R1a as a whole? What do
> you do with such a "modal" for this larger population? To carry this to
> the next step --- would a "modal haplotype" for all of R (primarily R1b
> and R1a) be of any use?
>

R1a is much more homogeneous that R1b ... for example, there
are no "non-private" SNP subclades.

Doug McDonald

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