Conservative haplogroup assignments
I agree and understand the reasoning behind testing companies assigning more conservative designations. However, I misunderstood and believed for a while there was nothing left to be gained from a closer examination of the mtdna results. In reality, there is still a lot to be learned and the tree continues to develop just as it does with ydna. It is a moving target just as it is with Ydna and many branches of the tree have yet been to be defined.
H is a pretty bland label and doesn't say much. But a subgroup of H... that has potential to mean something more... especially if it hasn't been explored and documented to the fullest extent. Possibly not for everyone, but for me, H was discouraging more than informative. With H31 it seems more hopeful... possibly because it narrows things if only by a little.
By the way, my GenBank accession number is JQ028728.
It has yet to be published, but is in the works.
I agree and understand the reasoning behind testing companies assigning more conservative designations. However, I misunderstood and believed for a while there was nothing left to be gained from a closer examination of the mtdna results. In reality, there is still a lot to be learned and the tree continues to develop just as it does with ydna. It is a moving target just as it is with Ydna and many branches of the tree have yet been to be defined.
H is a pretty bland label and doesn't say much. But a subgroup of H... that has potential to mean something more... especially if it hasn't been explored and documented to the fullest extent. Possibly not for everyone, but for me, H was discouraging more than informative. With H31 it seems more hopeful... possibly because it narrows things if only by a little.
By the way, my GenBank accession number is JQ028728.
It has yet to be published, but is in the works.
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