Hello List,
Some months ago, we had two J2-M67 CARRICOs take the BigY test (see bright red
table cells):
http://dgmweb.net/DNA/Carrico/CarricoDNA-results-HgJ2a4b.html#data
Nothing much seems to have come of it for the simple reason that I still have
not acquired the expertise needed to analyze the results. I was rather hoping
the Haplogroup J2 and J2a project admins would be interested enough to do it for
us, given the rarity of our haplotypes, but apparently not.
I can tell you that, in terms of SNPs, we are as unique as our STR haplotypes.
The two individuals BigY tested match no one else, except each other. They seem
to have one difference between them, and that could be helpful to us in terms of
identifying a branch in the family, but it also could be that one of them had a
"no call" for that locus. In other words, the read wasn't good enough to
trust
and, unlike STR testing, FTDNA does not go back and run the test again. So,
everyone who gets BigY tested gets some "no calls" in their results. Having
their results analyzed should tell us whether the difference is due to a no call
or to a mutation event.
I writing to ask the two individuals BigY tested to please allow their results
to be analyzed by YFull:
http://www.yfull.com/
I've now had several cousins' results analyzed this way, and I've found the
whole process rather innocuous, and I don't see any risk in doing it. The
charge is $49, and I'm willing to pay for both, but if I'm going to do the
download from FTDNA and the upload to YFull, I need to know your account
password (do email me OFFLIST). You can change your password after I do the
download if it makes you uneasy, though I've been your project admin for over a
decade, now, and I think you know my only intent is to aid the advancement of
our CARRICO genealogy.
You, of course, have the prerogative of doing the download/upload yourself, but
you will get stuck with the bill because it will come to the uploader's email
address. (They bill you after the upload.)
Once the results have been analyzed by YFull, our SNPs will have been placed on
the Y-DNA haplotree. This is what we're after: to find out where we are on the
tree, who is near us, and WHAT THEIR GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN IS. We all expect it to
be Portugal, but...
Once our SNPs are placed on the tree, the haplogroup project admins and other J2
researchers should become more interested in us.
Diana