Oops. I take that I was looking at the entry above the Big Y tester.
-Michael
On Wed, March 18, 2015 14:30, Michael Cooley wrote:
> Ugh. Many of our group have been pushed back to M512. Not only that, the
> Benjamin Big Y tester is "predicted" to be R-U152 despite the fact that he
> is negative for that SNP. Obviously, they don't have this down yet.
>
> -Michael
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> Subject: Haplogroup Prediction Update
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> Date: Wed, March 18, 2015 14:13
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> Many of you have contacted us about the inaccuracies in downstream
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> We intended to message this change well before final implementation so
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> update was released, but a critical part of our team was excited by the
> new process and we unintentionally released the first of the
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> to customers. Â Both the R1a and R1b branches of the R-haplotree were
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Received on Wed Mar 18 2015 - 16:32:13 CDT