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From: "William Hurst" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Come again with how to discern H2a2? Or is it H*?
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 13:36:22 -0400
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Ann wrote:
>The asterisk is a moving target. It is meant to convey the concept of "H
>not
>otherwise classified" -- but new subclade labels may be assigned in the
>future. Roostalu went up to 21, but I think my own little cluster deserves
>a label
>:)
>
>When FTDNA does an H subclade test (testing a few specific SNPs, not the
>whole coding region), it goes up to H15, so right now it might call someone
>who is
>actually H16 or higher an H*. There was a recent message about this, saying
>that FTDNA would manually change your haplogroup to H16 at the person's
>request.
>
>I think I've read the FTDNA is abandoning the use of the asterisk, for Y
>subclades at least. I'm not sure about mtDNA. If they wanted to indicate
>that
>*some* subclade testing had been done, they could label a person H(xH1-H15)
>--
>that is, H eXcept for H1-H15.
FTDNA has quit using the asterisk in mtDNA too - at least in the K sequences
I watch. But they haven't gone back and relabled those with asterisks.
Bill Hurst
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