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From: "Tim Janzen" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] The death of paragroups
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 22:51:13 -0800
In-Reply-To: <014101cba963$949fd3f0$bddf7bd0$@dgmweb.net>


Dear Diana,
Someone should change or remove that sentence from Wikipedia. Any
serious genetic genealogist knows that a SNP that occurs in less than 1% of
the population can be a "useful SNP", at least from a genealogical
perspective.
Sincerely,
Tim Janzen

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Matthiesen
Sent: Friday, December 31, 2010 7:26 PM
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Subject: Re: [DNA] The death of paragroups

From: Diana Gale Matthiesen [mailto:]
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2010 7:29 AM
To: ''
Subject: RE: [DNA] The death of paragroups

Apparently the consensus is that a SNP variation must appear in at least 1%
of the population to be phylogenetically "useful," which means the SNP
cannot be recent:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genealogical_DNA_test
(see under Haplogroup heading)

Diana


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