Another offer for those wanting to learn more about ancestral
relationships: Contact me if you are interested and we'll see how many
people we can group together.
'Ethnoancestry is prepared to drop the bottom out of things and spill a
bit of red ink if necessary (my accountant is going to tear his hair
out) if you can promise us 10, yes just 10 (ok, almost 10 will do),
particpants willing to take the R1b FT Upgrade Test which involves S21,
S26, S29 and S28 (R1b1c9 through 10). We hope to tease a few pockets of
each from locations in contries such as Spain where they "seem few and
far between" (perhaps their are regions where one or more will
predominate but no one has explored this in any depth at all) so we can
get an idea whether the apparent dividing lines between these
downstream subgroups are as stable as they appear to be. One would
think that with markers of an apparent age very close to Daddy M269,
S21 and S28 would be plastered all over Western Europe but this is not
the case. We would also like to know if S28 is more common than R1b1c*
as one moves further and further east. Would the Administrators please
contact me if they wish to avail themselves of this offer.'
These is also a deal on 5 new I1a SNPs for haplogroup identification,
this is for those who want the excitement of being on the leading edge
of DNA genetics research. This testing will determine what can be
learned from these SNP's in terms identifying ancestral origins.
EA also has some other offers, check out their website for details.
www.ethnodna.com
Some of these offers are time limited, so get em while they are hot.
Hopefully other companies will have similar announcements. I will let
you know if I see any. You can let us know if you see anything
advertised.
Thank you,
John Carr
jcarrgensearch(a)earthlink.net