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From: John Cartmell <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] The electronic DNA cave-writing-on-the-wall
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 15:21:21 +0100
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On 03 Jul, Ken Nordtvedt <> wrote:

> From: "John Cartmell" <>

> > But it's making fundamental errors in not letting participants know the
> > results. Knowledge advances by open, public questioning of results.
> > Sorenson simply takes in information without doing any worthwhile checks
> > - and generates DNA data that loses most of its value because of the
> > secrecy.

> The only secrecy concerning the ydna database by SMGF is in your
> imagination. One can interrogate the data for any imaginable haplotype
> from 7 marker definition on up. One can find one's complete haplotype if
> it is put into the database. I really don't know what you are talking
> about concerning the ydna data.

Not my imagination; I believed the information that SMGF put on their
web-page. I now appreciate that you can identify your information - but that's
not what SMGF say. With that knowledge I withdraw my objection - and intend to
test their system.

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