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From: Thomas Krahn <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Transparency (was R1b1c test for S3, S10, S13, S17)
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:03:26 +0200
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Dear Al,

It is certainly not our intention to take away the butter from EA's bread.
However I'd prefer fair play no matter how big or small the competition is.
Disclosing the sequences will be a much higher benefit for the customers than
for us. If customers really want this, THEY must tell EA.

M410 will definitely be a part of the new deep J test that's coming up very
soon.

Thomas

"Alfred A. Aburto Jr." <> schrieb:

> The trouble is that EA's "bread and butter" comes from SNP testing,
> while FTDNA's "bread and butter" comes from Y-STR and possibly mtDNA
> testing. If EA were a more "rounded" company then they might not hold
> the SNP results so closely.
>
> I think Thomas is right too, but unfortunately EA is not going to change
> anytime soon and one can hardly blame them.
>
> FTDNA can change though in the SNP area by being more aggressive. For
> over two years now I have been wondering why FTDNA doesn't test M410 for
> example (but EA has and does). Why oh why!? There is nothing private
> about M410. Is it possible that FTDNA & EA have some sort of agreement
> between them? I don't think so, but I wonder ...
> Al
>
>


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