My Novel Variants file hasn¹t changed yet, but again, that file was not an authorized FTDNA download - it was a file grab through the BigY Add-on via Google Chrome that was put out by Felix. If your Novel Variants file has changed, my question is has your VCF-file changed too? If is has, then they are changing their software pipeline (not the SNP calling component, but the HTS-alignment/read component); if it hasn¹t, then they are simply building the P109 tree and removing upstream SNPs and Felix¹s file grab is reflecting that. One would expect the VCF-file to be static, but the Novel Variants file to change; the former is an industry standard format output file that shouldn¹t change because the calls are relative to the reference sequence (which hasn¹t changed recently), but the later is an intellectual construct that is designed to change.

No matter how ill-advised the NV "intellectual construct" was, they used it for several months in the data they have put out. It is sabotage to change it now and then again and again and ....... in the future. It destroys peoples' spreadsheets used for making sense of the downstream tree. Perhaps they could change the name to X file but leave the assignment rules unaltered so we could efficiently compare apples to apples to apples....... Kenneth Nordtvedt Haplogroup I Clade Modalities and Trees at: http://knordtvedt.home.bresnan.net -----Original Message----- From: Charles Thornton but the lat[t]er is an intellectual construct that is designed to change. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to Y-DNA-HAPLOGROUP-I-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message