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From: James Heald <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Malaspina et al (2001)'s Cohens -- an answer ?
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 09:15:22 +0100
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Al, note that in Italian the name Andrea is a man's name (it's the
Italian for Andrew), not a female name.

Andrea Novelletto is going to be a he, not a she.



Alfred A. Aburto Jr. wrote:

> Sasson,
>
> > Sasson Margaliot wrote:
>
>
>>Then out of 106 Cohanim, only 17 (or 18) were outside of the Haplogroup J.
>>
>>Then of 89 Cohanim in Haplogroup J, only 54 were in CMH-6.
>>
>>What about the other 35 ? They were at various distances from CMH-6.
>>
>>As I understand, it's among these 35 that the group of J2a1 Cohanim was
>>found. Very interesting.
>>
>>
>
>
> Bonnie was referring to the Thomas et al (1998) paper. In this paper
> haplogroup J is not mentioned at all. This early paper could only
> approximately localize the main group of Cohanim to within Y-DNA
> haplogroup F(xP) meaning somewhere within Y-DNA haplogroups
> G,H,IJ,L,M,NO! They could not get more specific than that. If in the
> above that you wrote one replaces "Haplogroup J" with "Haplogroup F(xP)"
> then what you say is correct according to Thomas et al (1998).
>
> Note that in Thomas et al (1998) they did not find any Cohanim in
> haplogroups E or R or Q.
>
> The Malaspina et al (2001) paper I remember discussing last year. I
> don't remember what I said but someone could look it up. I remember a
> problem voiced was that the Italian Cohanim in J2a1 were based on an
> unpublished observations of Andrea Novelletto. I remember I wrote to Dr
> Novelletto and asked if the Italian Cohanim could be confirmed to be in
> J2a1 (Network 1.2). She responded but I must not have had alot of
> confidence in her answer as I don't remember what she said and I can't
> find her email now. I am writing her again. I will respond here if I get
> an answer. When I read this paper my feeling was that A. Novelletto
> typed a limited number of Italian Cohanim that had the CMH and they were
> found to be within Network 1.2 which is J2a1 (DYS413<=18). The CMH in
> Malaspina et al (2001) would be represented by the four markers:
> DYS388-DYS390-DYS392-DYS393 = 16-23-11-12. There was no discussion of
> other haplotypes of the Cohanim belonging to J2a1.
> Al
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