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From: "Lawrence Mayka" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Some truth in article
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 18:11:39 -0500
In-Reply-To: <7kincaids%40primus.ca$142.154.18.221$.F4B47B1C93A1485B9473C7EA8BD75EC8@PeterAKincaiPC>


But they aren't. We must generally take the market--both vendors and
consumers--as they are, not as we might like them to be.

Right now, no vendor sells more than 12 markers below the $100 price point,
to my knowledge. And right now, I daresay that only one vendor in this
field has worldwide brand name recognition and unquestioned credibility with
ordinary consumers: National Geographic. Their package includes only 12
markers, haplogroup classification, a DVD, and a customized web page; but
that is apparently enough to satisfy close to 300,000 customers.

Over 35% of the yDNA entries in my project, and about 30% of the mtDNA
entries, originated with National Geographic.

> [mailto:] On Behalf Of
> Peter A. Kincaid
> If everyone
> was selling much higher resolution tests for $99 nobody
> would argue with any of my points about the uselessness
> of 12 marker testing.


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