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From: Robert Stafford <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] significance of GD 7 at 67 markers
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 06:25:14 -0600
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They have not implemented it yet, but it appears that it will be done fairly
soon.

Bob Stafford

On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Allene Goforth <> wrote:

> Thanks, Bob. They must only be doing the new tests that way. They
> haven't changed the way they calculate my husband's match. It still
> doesn't show up on his Matches because it's still beyond the cutoff for
> displaying 67-marker matches, It doesn't really matter because the
> match is in the paper trail. I'm just using this as an example.
>
> Allene
>
> On 12/30/2010 12:24 PM, Robert Stafford wrote:
> > FTDNA is eliminating most of the problem of recLOHs on one marker by
> using
> > infinite alleles on all multi-copy markers. Spotting multiple recLOHs on
> > nearby markers is probably best done manually. An algorithm to do it
> > automatically would need to be updated as more markers are added, so it
> may
> > not be worth bothering with.
> >
> > Bob Stafford
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 7:40 PM, Allene Goforth<>
> wrote:
> >
> >> So why doesn't FTDNA count them that way to begin with?
> >>
> >
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