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From: "Lawrence Mayka" <>
Subject: RE: [DNA] Is he or is he not R1b? This could get interesting.
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 12:08:35 -0500
In-Reply-To: <009701c6b5a6$be051300$6401a8c0@Precision360>


> From: Lawrence Mayka [mailto:]
> > Just to be sure, though, I ran this individual's markers
> > through Athey's haplogroup predictor. To my shock I got
> > these results:
> >
> > R1b=61, Q=60, R1a=29
>
> By the way, at 12 markers, Athey's predictor had R1a=56,
> Q=48, R1b=44. Maybe R1a is a dark horse candidate and will
> pass the others on the third lap?

In retrospect, I should not have even bothered the mailing list until this
guy's 26-37 markers arrived. (He is YX8BS in Ysearch.) Now, with 37
markers, Athey's predictor gives R1b=63, Q=48, R1a=33 (second round R1b=43,
Q=26). I guess it's true what everyone says: Ignore the Q! (Unless nothing
else fits.)

I ran him against the R1b STR modals, and the closest one is R1bSTR47Scots.
This accords well with his nearest Ysearch neighbors (GD of 6-8 at 37
markers), which are mostly Scottish even when not explicitly marked as such.

I suppose he could descend from one of the tens of thousands of Scots who
immigrated to Poland in the 16th and 17th centuries.


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