Thanks Ivan,

Yes, those are autosomal SNPs, which are not the same as ySTRs and
are not used for direct male-line testing, which is the purpose of
STRs on the Y chromosome. You can currently examine about 1 million
SNPs by buying a commercial test with deCODEme, or about 550,000 for
half the cost with 23andme (for health and genealogy) or Family Tree
DNA (even cheaper, for genealogy only).

Best,

A.J. Levin

--- On Sun, 6/13/10, Ivan Sindell <isindell@...> wrote:

This is summary of one of two current
articles about using a 600,000
markers

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/landmark-study-proves-90-of-je
ws-are-genetically-linked-to-the-levant-1.295231

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