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From: Nelda Percival <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Y-DNA tEsting
Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 17:31:20 -0500
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Laura,

forget saying this one is this and that one is that.... Are you the admin? have they all joined ysearch? if you give us all the ysearch ids for the ones who have joined anyone of us can go to ysearch and input the ids for comparisons with the others.

other then that: list each person here by not number 15 but by the DYS number

Person number one
DYS19=12; DYS393=14; and so forth so we can see the haplotypes of each member.
then someone can give you a more resonable answer...

n..Regards: Nelda Percival http://freepages.folklore.rootsweb.com/~bonsteinandgilpin/ > From: > Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 18:11:24 -0400> To: > Subject: Re: [DNA] Y-DNA tEsting> > > In a message dated 5/18/2008 4:10:41 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > writes:> > Matches at low levels (12 or 25 markers) can be mere coincidence> > > Ok, every time I think I understand something a little better I read > something that throws that off. Just to be sure and this is probably a simple > question with the obvious answer, but....earlier I mentioned that there are 7 > members in our group. One did the 67 marker, two did the 37 marker, one did the > 25 marker and three did the 12. All matched at 12. The 67 marker and one of > the 37 markers (my cousin) were exact matches at 37. Back to the 25...he > matched all the way to markers 24 & 25. Turns out he's 4 steps from us. > (Last night in my bleariness and looking at the fine print, I counted wrong and > thought he was only two steps off.) > > Anyway, I'm assuming that unlike apples and oranges, though he only did 25 > and is being compared to 37 and 67, you can still interpret the genetic > distance the same because you still have to have 25 markers before you get to 37. > The reason I ask this is that in groups of 12 or groups of 25, etc., I see > that the number of steps apart within the 25 markers groups seem to be > interpreted different from how the 12 marker group and the 37 marker group distances > are interpreted as far as relationship goes. Is that right?> > So, now the guy that I thought was only 2 steps away is now 4, so we can > kiss him goodbye. He's not a kissing cousin. Then, looking at the other 37 > marker guy...he is one step away at marker 15, but all the rest match the 37 & > 67 participants (us 10, him 9). So that's "tightly related" accordijng to > the Interpreting chart.> > Now back to the 25 marker guy who is 4 off from us. It appears he is 5 off > from the last 37 marker guy. At 15 he's a 10 and the 37 guy is 9, then at 24 > & 25 he's 15 & 16, to the other three 37 markers 17 & 18. Did I figure that > right?> > Anytime y'all want to tell me to go take a break, I'll take the hint.> > Thanks,> Laura> > > > **************Wondering what's for Dinner Tonight? Get new twists on family > favorites at AOL Food. > (http://food.aol.com/dinner-tonight?NCID=aolfod00030000000001)>; > -------------------------------> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

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