[tied] Re: Idea of PIEan expansion - "business takeovers" on major

From: ehlsmith
Message: 44436
Date: 2006-04-29

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...>
wrote:
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> Curiously, I myself have the J2 haplotype even though my Mc
Callister ancestors arrived in the US from Belfast c. 1750 or so. My
closest genetic relatives on websites, other than some other Mc
Callisters, are in Central Asia, the Middle East and Eastern Europe and
tend to be Kahane or Muslims.

I'm afraid I'm being a nitpicker, but isn't it rather misleading to
say "closest genetic relatives" when comparing less than .00005 of the
genome?

Ned Smith