GENEALOGY-DNA-L Archives

Archiver > GENEALOGY-DNA > 2007-03 > 1173811467


From: "Alfred A. Aburto Jr." <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] OmniPop caution received from FamilyTreeDNA
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 11:17:25 -0800
References: <cdb.9c8bb2a.33283343@aol.com>
In-Reply-To: <cdb.9c8bb2a.33283343@aol.com>


Sounds like a businessman talking of course :-)
I wonder what misleading information OmniPop provides?
Did you advise Brian Burritt of these comments?
Al

> wrote:

>In response to my question to FTDNA 3/12/07 on Panel 1 and OmniPop
>
>
>I hope FTDNA will increase their support and marketing of the autosomal Panel
>1. I think it's very exciting to get information on the autosomal
>contributions from the various geographic groups to your genome. It doesn't directly
>lead to historical family information (too many families to trace). It stands
>alone as an important part of the history of your genome.
>
>I hope that FTDNA will do the OmniPop analysis for the customer in the
>future. Gary Fox
>
>I received the following from its President, Bennett Greenspan, who gave me
>permission to publish it to genealogy-dna.
>Bennett Greenspan
>"We are offering the Autosomal markers because we have been asked for them,
>to match against some CODIS markers I presume, but we are not very impressed
>with the database that OMNIPOP has and we feel that it can provide misleading
>information so we don’t have it interactive on our site (Yes I know it is much
>easier for you if we do that, but doing that provides some level of our
>official ‘stamp’ which I am not yet comfortable doing. We will be building an
>independent database for comparison purposes, and have already amassed several
>hundred samples but frankly that is nothing when you are talking about recombinant
>DNA."
>Gary
>
><BR><BR><BR>**************************************<BR> AOL now offers free
>email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at
>http://www.aol.com.
>
>

This thread: