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From: Jim Mandaville <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] r1a and Fluxus analysis
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 18:11:47 -0700
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>FTDNA's error is the bogus '(tested)' notation. At best, it indicates that
>the marker values have been uploaded automatically, not the haplogroup
>(which customers often enter themselves, because a mere prediction uploads
>as 'Unknown').


Well, that was certainly not the case in my recent 37-marker STR test
(if I understand correctly what you're saying). The box was uploaded
by FTDNA (not by me ) as "R1b1 tested". This haplogroup was a
"prediction" by them (at least in the usual sense of the word, not
based on any SNP test). I have no complaint with their helpful
prediction (which was later SNP-proved correct), only with the
misleading original word "tested".

Jim Mandaville

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