Is it remotely possible that one of the reasons we suddenly have all these new SNPs for M222+ can be explained by a new member having 11 off modal markers on 37 markers tested and still be given the Niall badge?
11 off modal at 37 and has the Nial Badge? Did he SNP test or test w/Geno2? That's wild if he didn't because I've never seen them predict by haplotype that far out at all. I think we've got these new SNPs because both citizen scientists and geneticists alike have been looking into the 1000 Genome material which was released. That's where Andy G found df85 & df97; Geno2 supposedly got some of their SNPs from there, WTY, and other work that Thomas K did as well as other research; Jim Wilson for Chromo2 got df85 from Andy G, also looked into 1000 Genomes, other research, and in house work, too. Some equate the new products because of competition from FGC; in truth, perhaps not as these products have development time and although there may have been rumors of a new start up, that really isn't enough time for product developments, so the timing for all of them probably competitively coincidental. Britains DNA for instance started test driving Chromo2 earlier this year, a bit later than FGC was kicking off if I remember, but FGC didn't have much in the way of data at that point; Geno2 information--a lot of it had already been released and they had been planning for the new Geno (in our future) at the time G2 began. As for Big Y, FTDNA acquired a couple of companies one which had more sequencing capability, they'd been up-grading facilities (from what I hear anyway), and they've the data from "WTY", Geno2 plus the further research to now kick off BigY. On 11/17/2013 1:10 PM, Linda McKee wrote: > Is it remotely possible that one of the reasons we suddenly have all > these new SNPs for M222+ can be explained by a new member having 11 off > modal markers on 37 markers tested and still be given the Niall badge? > > > ------------------------------- > 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 >