Hi, Now that FTDNA is receiving SNP raw data from 23andMe, will or how will this information effect the need to do additional testing such as the WTY project? Linda

23andMe only tests for certain SNP's and certain blocks of data. When it comes to Y DNA and mitochondrial DNA it tests for known SNP's. 23andMe doesn't even test for the latest subclade SNP's. It has absolutely no bearing on Walk the Y or any other full sequencing projects of the Y chromosome. Dora On 2/3/2012 5:38 PM, Linda Threadgill wrote: > Hi, > Now that FTDNA is receiving SNP raw data from 23andMe, will or how will this information effect the need to do additional testing such as the WTY project? > Linda > > ------------------------------- > 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 > -- Yours, Dora Smith Austin, TX

Linda, FTDNA allowing the upload of 23andMe SNPs won't be helpful, mainly because FTDNA will not make these SNPs publicly available for good reasons, and is unlikely to do special examination of these SNPs on its own. But the 23andMe Y chromosome SNPs are useful, and I recommend that every man who tested at 23andMe send in his Y SNPs to Adriano Squecco's project, instructions are here: http://daver.info/ysub/ Many big discoveries have already been made by the project (such as the importance of L460 which caused the rearrangement of all groups in I2), so it less likely that we will find a new discovery that will affect a lot of people in haplogroup I, but anyone could find a new result that defines a new subclade. And there are some major groups separated by thousands of years from the rest of haplogroup I that don't have any results in the project, for example the I2a*/I2a1*-France group as far as I can tell. Bernie On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 6:38 PM, Linda Threadgill <llt1948@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > Now that FTDNA is receiving SNP raw data from 23andMe, will  or how will this information effect the need to do additional testing such as the WTY project? > Linda >