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From: Doug McDonald <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] more on R1a WTY results
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:28:32 -0500
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Ken Nordtvedt wrote:
> Hopefully at least one other R1a person has signed up for the WTY?

That would be nice, but not necessary at the moment. What needs to
be done is for FTDNA to offer these as SNP tests (they obviously have primers)
and test selected people, especially people who or L63+ but SRY10831+
(ancestral) and/or M198-, as well as a selection of people in
different haplotype clusters.

>
> It's neat to see a STR in the making. Which raises the question: when does
> an STR become an STR?
>
> Would ATCATC be an STR?

NO


> It must happen often by simple chance. I guess
> when it starts being seen polymorphic at the site? Another case of snps and
> strs blurring into each other.
>

Remember that there are many example of real STRs in people and
chimps where the other species has a repeat count of say 4.

Doug McDonald

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