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From: howard wolinsky <>
Subject: Re: [Y-DNA-HAPLOGROUP-G] Recomendations on which additional testseveryone should order - a small clarification for DYS385.
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 07:56:16 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <20061012203505.2062.qmail@web53804.mail.yahoo.com>

Ted, Is this the same test I ordered from FTDNA?
Howard

--- Ted Kandell <> wrote:

> People should get the DYS385 Kittler Protocol test.
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> The current DYS385 test just orders the repeats with
> the shorter one first followed by the longer. This
> doesn't show what this STR actually looks like. The
> Kittler Protocol determines the repeats of DYS385 in
> the actual order that they appear on the Y.
>
> For example, 13,15 is not the same as 15,13 but
> with out the Kittler Protocol they both come out as
> 13,15. In fact, in haplogroup G, people who have
> DYS385=11,13 with the standard test, actually have
> 13,11 - there seems to have been a deletion of
> several repeats in a certain portion of G for those
> who have the value "11" in DYS385.
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> So, even those people who have just 12 STRs, and
> already have been tested for DYS385, should order
> the DYS385 Kittler Protocol STR test.
>
> Ted Kandell
>
> DQ377992 in GenBank Nucleotide
> YGYTX in ySearch / DNA-Fingerprint user: 5136.70
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