yDNA Project Report 6 February 2008: 4 new participants Return to Analysis Report Index prior report next report
Current Activity Summary We have 4 new participants included in the results. And just like the rest of the Clan their profiles confirmed some patterns and established some new ones. These profiles also highlighted the need for a "standard" definition of when to group a set of profiles as a separate branch. The prior visual graphing method was a good start but left a few ambiguities. The addition of these profiles helped to arrive at a standard scale using "genealogically" significant differences to resolve the ambiguities. That means that two profiles need to be within 3 variances of each other to be within the same group. Hence, we now have a dozen or so tentative Clan Branches. Profile 105419 in particular helped to resolve Group D into 3 groups (now D, K and L). Using the 3-marker-values scale also resolves profiles 97012 and 12109 each to their own group (albeit still strongly similar). Likewise, 89776 resolves to its own group. New profiles 102964 and 103882 similarly resolve each to their own group. New profile 102957 becomes part of Group F and accordingly modifies the Branch F modal values. For diagram clarity the modal "profiles" have been scaled to size to represent the number of clan members aligned to that Modal group. Hence the Clan Modal is quite large since all members align to it.
The spreadsheet summary below groups each profile with its tentatively assigned Branch-Modal value. The leftmost column is the branch group indicator. The rightmost two columns show the distance when compared to the Clan_modal profile and that branch group's modal profile. Mind you there are still too few participants for this to be anything but tentative. Also listed is each branch group's modal profile and shown, to the right of each, how distant that group's modal profile is from the clan modal profile.
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