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From: Bill Howard <>
Subject: Re: [R-M222] Bill Howard
Date: Sun, 01 May 2011 12:03:15 -0400
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Thanks, Thomas.
I think the RCC approach to a tree will add to what others are doing. It is admittedly different, and as such, has gained some initial criticism from people who are wedded to the marker difference approach. But our success in forming closely related groups of haplotypes into clusters has been pretty extensive over many different surname groups. This application to the M222 subclade is a bit different from the ones that focussed on surnames, and I think it has utility there, too. I am particularly interested in its application to haplogroups. While the use of haplogroup MODALs is NOT the way to proceed (since it deals with averages and not extreme values of the haplotype within each haplogroup) it appears to parrot the ISOGG sequence, except the RCC time scale of our tree shows time connections about a factor of two too low compared to the ISOGG dates. I think the difference is due to the use of modal values, not actual haplotypes within each haplogroup. Using actual extreme!
haplotypes of each haplogroup is the way to proceed, but I have not done that yet. I do have pretty good confidence in the RCC time scale, however, to within about 20 percent, and it has a distinct advantage of providing a uniform time scale that is applicable over all haplogroups. Up to this point, I think researchers have been trying to date haplogroups using haplotypes within each haplogroup; our RCC approach presents a uniform time scale over all of them.
I am hoping to get Bennett Greenspan's attention to the RCC approach. It can be used in conjunction with his TIP method to give testees relationships among all other testees, not just to the ones that they are closest to. This may be of more interest to geneticists than to genealogists, of course, but it takes all types of research to push this field forward!
Do read the FAQ that John Mclaughlin just put up. It explains much of the background and approach to the RCC methodology that my published two papers might not have done. When I have time, I want to update it to include FAQs with respect to our new phylogenetic trees.
Again, thanks for the nice comments.
- Bye from Bill Howard

On May 1, 2011, at 11:34 AM, Thomas Tucker wrote:

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> I have read the papers of Dr. Howard.
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> Thanks for the information. Bill...as a testee from M-222 #83687 I cannot follow the field language comprehensively. It is deep. My best insight analysis is that it is a way of using a method of distillation of an entire entity of information collected to form an objective answer through using more reliable time tested generational history (pedigrees) information to go from a A to Z to the bone. Good Luck.
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> Thomas Tucker


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