Partly it goes to the care and feeding of those dedicated people who help to keep this M222 website alive, and thank goodness to have their company! Otherwise who among us could evaluate a DNA test? We take those tests blindly while assuming meaningful results. And then those dedicated people here go to work on it. Well, ya pays yer money and ya takes yer chances! But where else could a person get this sort of information? On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 7:16 PM, Robert Doherty <[email protected]>wrote: > I assume that the different DNA testing companies are giving different > (private) labels to the same markers for a reason. But then how do they > justify saying that they offer more or additional markers than their > competitors if they cannot provide their customers (participants) the means > to verify this? What is the reason for reticence on their part to > contribute to a "Rosetta Stone" to translate / compare results from the > different vendors? Is it just greed? Or is there some legal constraint > that is holding them back? Are there legal roadblocks to members of this > list to create such a translation table? Could an independent entity like > the ISOGG host such a table that could provide the transparency we are > looking for? > > I find it interesting how quickly access to the following table was > withdrawn: > >> A copy of Dr. Michael's Hammer's map of the new SNPs downstream from > M222 has been published at: > >> > https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151949352643444&set=gm.621729794551000&type=1&theater > > Bob Doherty > Sent from my iPad > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >