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> On Oct 6, 2015, at 9:37 AM, Cheri Mello <[email protected]> wrote: > > R1b is the most common European haplogroup for males. The current > nomenclature is R-M269. Within that very large group is another subgroup, who > are the most common of the most common. That's the Western Atlantic Modal > Haplotype or WAMH. > > What this Backbone panel is going to do is to refine and break these > subgroups down on the tree of mankind. So instead of being R-M269, you could > be R-P312, R-S1051, R-L21, etc. > > So that means at Thanksgiving you can say that you're no longer R-M269, but > R-####. Everyone's eyes will glaze over like they have had too much turkey! > > All joking aside though...no, it's not going to help with your genealogy per > se. It really more anthropological in nature. At least at this time. There is > a thought that there may be familial SNPs. This science is pretty new. I > don't think that means that there's a Mello SNP, a Barbosa SNP, an Avelar > SNP. I think it may mean that there's a SNP that the Mello & Barbosa families > descend from, for example. It's still a developing science and they are > making discoveries. No one has a crystal ball to say what the end result is. > > I think they are advertising 135 for SNPs in a package for $79 instead of > $99. Normally, it $39 per SNP. So to order 135 SNPs would be a few thousand > dollars. > > So if you have the extra $79 and are willing to contribute your Y-DNA (or the > Y-DNA of the male you tested) to this growing science, do it! Just understand > that you're not getting genealogy out of it a this time. You may be leaving a > legacy for the future! > > Cheri Mello > Family Tree DNA Admin (volunteer) > Azores DNA Project > -- > For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail > (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right > that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Azores Genealogy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores. -- For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores.
