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From: Doug McDonald <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Press release: deCODEme to offer test of a million SNPs
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:52:05 -0600
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Most of this product is autosomal, which is of less interest for genealogy.

But what really is interesting is the price! This means that they (or rather their
test supplier, since they seem to be a reseller) could generate a test of just the Y
chromosome that would provide a vast number of SNPs. How vast would of course
be determined by how many sites they could generate a suitable test for
using the technology they use. It might be well less than a million. But still,
even 100,000 randomly chosen locations would likely turn up
SNPs of genealogical interest.

Doug McDonald

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