I would appreciate your thoughts about the best method for drawing a cladogram from STR values.
I have a group of men who share a close 37 marker match and are divided between two surnames, X and Y. I would like to try to create a cladogram to make an educated guess about whether X descended from Y, Y from X or both from another common ancestor, Z.
I found instructions for creating cladograms using McGee's Y Utility at
Unfortunately this approach uses Fluxus which is available only for Windows, not for my Mac. I explored Phylip, which doesn't offer this function, and MacClade, which is no longer supported in Mac OS X. So I thought I would consult a bit before deciding whether to spend some $$ to partition my Mac to run Windows programs.
A few questions:
1. Are you aware of any other programs that will run on a Mac to create cladograms from STRs?
2. If not, do you have any ideas for creating cladograms manually? I have made spreadsheets to compare each of the results with the modal and minimum values, and partitioned the group into clusters based on shared mutations. But I'm not sure where to go from there in plotting the differences in a cladogram.
3. If drawing a diagram manually isn't feasible, would you draw any conclusions regarding the earlier surname on the basis of distance from the modal or minimum haplotypes? If so, which one would give the better insight?
Thanks!
Jim
I have a group of men who share a close 37 marker match and are divided between two surnames, X and Y. I would like to try to create a cladogram to make an educated guess about whether X descended from Y, Y from X or both from another common ancestor, Z.
I found instructions for creating cladograms using McGee's Y Utility at
Unfortunately this approach uses Fluxus which is available only for Windows, not for my Mac. I explored Phylip, which doesn't offer this function, and MacClade, which is no longer supported in Mac OS X. So I thought I would consult a bit before deciding whether to spend some $$ to partition my Mac to run Windows programs.
A few questions:
1. Are you aware of any other programs that will run on a Mac to create cladograms from STRs?
2. If not, do you have any ideas for creating cladograms manually? I have made spreadsheets to compare each of the results with the modal and minimum values, and partitioned the group into clusters based on shared mutations. But I'm not sure where to go from there in plotting the differences in a cladogram.
3. If drawing a diagram manually isn't feasible, would you draw any conclusions regarding the earlier surname on the basis of distance from the modal or minimum haplotypes? If so, which one would give the better insight?
Thanks!
Jim
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