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This thread appears to have moved past this point, so pardon me for bringing it back to the fore.

I suspect that "accepted science" is, like many things, in the eye of the beholder. But I think I can say a few things on the topic that are not controversial.

The...

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I think he meant me :-)...

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I think Tomcat is the only one on this thread so far to announce that he is negative for both rs34276300 (aka S116) and U106 (aka S21), but I know that there are more FTDNA customers who have received similar results.

This puts Tomcat in pretty rare company among R1b1c Europeans, though...

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We can't test people for ht35, we can only predict that status based on STRs.

If you have not tested DYF385, and care about whether you might be ht35 or not, then I encourage you to do it.

Historically, people had used the combination of DYS393=12 and DYS461=11 to predict...

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For the record, R1b1c haplotypes with DYS393=12, DYS461=11, and DYF385=10,10 appear to belong to subdivision of R1b1c known as ht35.

ht35 is actually defined by a test that is not commercially offered, but those three STR values appear to be closely associated with ht35. Without hijacking...

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Saying that DYS388 deviates from the normal stepwise mutational process (which are Nebel's words, not Jim's) is a tortured and probably inaccurate statement.

The most common value of DYS388 in haplogroup J1 is 16. This possibly represents the value held by the MRCA of all members of...

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The conclusion of the study was there was indeed a single founder for this particular mutation....

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You probably didn't need the test. I1a is pretty easy to predict with just 12 or 25 Y-STRs, and almost no I1a folks are positive for M227 (the only downstream SNP for I1a that shows up with any frequency at all).

Every I1a will be positive for M170, P38, M253, M307, P30, and P40....

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There is no doubt - based on your ysearch entry - that your haplogroup is R1b1c. Unfortunately, FTDNA will not always predict that level of detail without a SNP test. The cost of that test will bring some confirmation that you have M269, but I generally don't recommend that Italians with R1b1c spend...

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I wouldn't worry, and I wouldn't waste any effort trying to "explain" the mutations.

Mutations happen randomly. Some lineages go dozens of generations without any mutations, and others get a large number in just a few generations.

Also remember that depending...

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I would say "speculates" is a better description than "confirms".

This Rootsweb thread contains more detail, but the gist is that the sample from Malta that Wells seems to think represents Phoenican ancestry probably more likely reflects recent (modern) genetic input...

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If by "tied" you mean "funded, hosted, and operated by" then yes.

But, seriously, you've got two huge, free databases with no ads and very little spam that are professionally hosted and virtually never have access problems (downtime, lost data, etc.). Anyone can use...

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ySearch and mitosearch already act as aggregators in just the way you suggest, yet it is still far from representative. The bias at work is a selection bias: some groups of folks are more likely to be willing and able to undertake DNA tests than other groups.

Unless a third party (like...

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The overall mutation rate among markers 38-67 is very low, though there are some markers in that upgrade with mutatin rates that are high.

It is precisely this low mutation rate that makes the test useful to seperating the "really related" 37-marker near-matches from the "coincidental"...

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Have you tried to map those surnames on an old map of the UK, to see where they overlap? That might be fun, especially if only one city contained all the different surnames....