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From: "Ken Nordtvedt" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] TOP-10 Wish List for 2007
Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2007 17:00:11 -0700
References: <174398.12237.qm@web81101.mail.mud.yahoo.com>


----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Felix" <>

Negative [SNP] test results only serve to discourage them [potential
customers?].
>
> The hit and miss with SNP's is not the way to go without supporting data
> and a lot more SNP's and a more reliable method of determining the chances
> of testing positive for these markers.
>


Huh? I just bought 5 SNP tests, hoping I would be negative for at least one
of them. I wasn't There information present in both negative and positive
results.

After an SNP is discovered, the early haplotypes involved in further testing
will be "hit or miss" in many cases. They are part of the process of
mapping out what segments of which populations are downstream of the SNP.
This will be done by either academics in research studies, by commercial
labs seeking to see if the SNPs are of potential interest to customers, or
by us non-professional genetic genealogy researchers seeking to understand
specific ancient populations better Ken


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