National Geographic
Genographic Project Q&A Compilation |
| Question #1: When a FTDNA customer
uploads to the Genographic Project, will he/she be sent the spiffy DVD and other stuff
that Genographic Project participants get? Answer: No. (FTDNA participants do receive the Genographic personal website) Question #2: Concerning haplogroups, part of
what I think is going on is: Question #3: So then, somebody who first tests with the Geno Project pays $99 and if his haplogroup cannot be estimated then he is required to pay $65 to get a SNP test before uploading to FTDNA ... is this right? Answer: No additional payment. FTDNA had to absorb the cost as part of the deal with NG. Question #4: (Question about the SNP testing requirement) Answer: The test needs to be ordered only
if it cannot be predicted with a minimum level of certainty that was required by the
Genographic Project, through an algorithm used during the conversion process. Question #6: I'm a male. Can I send a Genographic sample in, identified as female, to get mitochrondial results? I want both mt and Y tests done (would send a separate sample as male for the Y). Since FTDNA does the testing, and obviously males have mt, would this be a problem? Answer: You can send the test to Natl Geo and mark it female for the mtDNA to be tested. Once you get their results, you will be able to upload the results to us through a link that they will offer and then order a Y-DNA test for less than $99.95. Question #7: Is there a way to ask either Family Tree DNA or the Genographic Project people if they intend to use mitochondrial results for any part of this project? I ask this because there is some mention of mitochondrial DNA in the write-up. Answer: Sure. Both Y-DNA and mtDNA tests are
being offered and both can be uploaded from the FTDNA personal results page to the
Genographic Project. Answer: For those who want to
donate directly to the Genographic Project, go to this page and click on one of the
donation links: Question #9: If you
have been tested for both your Y and mito haplogroups do you need to submit twice and pay
the $15 twice or will one submission work? Question #10: I just checked on my Genographic
Project and I am in haplogroup K. 16624C, 16311C, 16519C Answer: K10550 is the coding-region mutation, usually written 10550G or A10550G, used by FTDNA and the Genographic Project to determine if a person is in K. They use 22 different coding-region mutations for this purpose. Question #11: How will the Genographic Project results be made public? Answer: In scientific papers.
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