I'm not sure there is a generic answer to that. Some of the BigY and FGC tests have yielded additional branching SNPs that are either being evaluated or are there to be tried out: S660 and DF97 at the moment. The rest (off the top of my head) have only yielded private SNPs not shared with anyone else. Most frustratingly to me despite five people in FGC0477 being sequenced we have yet to find a single new shared SNP. For those who aren't in branches I have mentioned specifically the difficulty is that to try one person's private SNPs from one's own branch can be too expensive to justify, although it is possible to get some good bulk deals from Thomas Krahn. However the cost may approach the point at which you might have to think twice whether it would be better to get sequenced yourself. Better to shout out questions citing your actual branch either on the list or off, which ever you prefer (I have no preference in this respect!). Iain > Date: Wed, 7 May 2014 14:20:54 -0500 > From: william.guinn@gmail.com > To: dna-r1b1c7@rootsweb.com > Subject: [R-M222] Summarizing next steps > > Forgive me if this has been adequately covered elsewhere, but in > intermittently reviewing the Digest and Iain and others' continual efforts > to map our community to the most up-to-date information, it's become a bit > overwhelming to know how best we individual participants can help the group > by pursuing additional testing. This has become especially true following > the mapping of some of the individuals who have pursued Big Y. > > Would it be possible for those who are closer to the current status to > provide some general advice on what those who have pursued Chromo2 or Geno > 2.0 may do to help refine these trees? > > Is there enough information for some of us to pursue individual SNP tests; > are there broad areas of the tree where additional Big Y or FGC > participants would be useful to the group? Should we hold off for now? > > How can we help? > > RG > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DNA-R1B1C7-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message