myOrigins white paper now available

[JuanCarlos]

Apparently another paper is in the works to answer the many questions raised about the populations and methodology used for MO. It will posted at the FTDNA Learning Center.

Where is the FTDNA Learning Center at?

[vinnie]

Where is the FTDNA Learning Center at?

See the link at the top of this page.

[JuanCarlos]

See the link at the top of this page.

Thank you for pointing it out. I just saw it. Had never noticed it before.

[S9 H9]

That entry by Khan and Hu seems more like a "backgrounder" rather than an entry intended for average FTDNA customer, to answer specific questions. Few laymen will be able to follow all the references.

I am still cringing over the population descriptions, though the Khan and Hu descriptions are somewhat different than those which finally made it onto the MyOrigins page.

[1798]

The Hardy-Weinburg Equilbrium (H-WE) assumption is that the allele frequencies seen in the reference populations today reflect the allele frequencies from some (unspecified) time in the past.

Allele frequencies can change over time for a variety of reasons, including random drift, but in a large population, the changes will be small.

Allele frequencies can also change with migration of a new population into the existing population.

The populations with a small number of samples are actually more likely to violate the H-WE assumption. I suspect the reason for small sample sizes is very mundane: they didn't have much to choose from.

Are you saying that the autosomal dna of the Irish hasn't changed very much in 12,000 years?