Hello List,
Member #86809, one of the descendants of Peter CARRICO, the 1674 immigrant to
Maryland, has undergone a Kittler test to determine the actual order of the
alleles at marker 385a-385b.
http://dgmweb.net/genealogy/DNA/Carrico/CarricoDNA-results.shtml#J2a1b
Standard testing does not reveal the order of this pair of alleles; and, by
convention, they are reported "low-high." A Kittler test will determine the
order of these alleles, and it turns out they actually are "low-high" (i.e.,
12-17, not 17-12). Low-high is also the order for the modal haplotypes of
Haplogroup J2a1b. We can now assume the other descendants of Peter CARRICO are
also low-high, so there is no real need for anyone else, at this point, to take
the test.
Thank you to this member for undergoing this test for us.
The CARRICO who is a descendant of Joaquim CARRICO of Portugal may want to
consider taking this test at some point as his values for 385a-385b, which are
13-15, have a greater possibility of being ordered differently from the modal
values for Haplogroup J2a1b1, which are 14-15 (i.e., it would require fewer
mutations to reverse the order).
Diana