I should have read this message before posting comment about Motala2 on the other message. On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 7:47 AM, Kenneth Nordtvedt <[email protected]>wrote: > And I made a @#$%% typo. Motala2 is M253- of course. > > > > Kenneth Nordtvedt > > Haplogroup I Clade Modalities and Trees at: > http://knordtvedt.home.bresnan.net > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kenneth Nordtvedt > Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2014 2:22 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [yDNAhgI] phyloequivalent ysnps > > In my recent message about ancient haplogroup I in Europe I forgot to > include a comment on phyloequivalent snps. Here it is. > > So you can see the importance in Tree building of keeping track of the full > list of phyloequivalent snps for every branch segment of the Tree, > especially as the branch segments are further upstream. > > As the business of recovering the most complete ydna as possible for very > old bones continues, and we want to extract information from those > reconstructed y chromosomes, necessarily the reconstructions will be > incomplete to various degrees depending on soils and climate conditions, > etc. Not all snp sites will be readable. So as complete as possible a > list > of phyloequivalent snps in our Tree gives the most number of alternative > sites to read in the reconstructed ydna of the ancients. This will allow > for more information extracted from that ancient dna for better location of > the ancient dna in the Tree. > > > Kenneth Nordtvedt > > Haplogroup I Clade Modalities and Trees at: > http://knordtvedt.home.bresnan.net > > > ------------------------------- > 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 > > > ------------------------------- > 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 >