Hi,

Some posters on the FTDNA forum complain about the lack of matches after a Big Y test. I don't believe it is the fault of FTDNA. If one belongs to a rare dna group they will find it hard to find matches despite the fact that 1000's of people are taking tests. I belong to a rare branch with just one close match in eleven years.There are a lot of testers at FTDNA who are not willing to go beyond 12 and 25 YSTR markers and a lot more who seem to have no interest in YSNP tests. There is not a lot that we the most advanced testers and FTDNA can do about that.I sent in 20 named SNPs to FTDNA that are not in the FTDNA Y tree. They are new to me and came from the Big Y Hg38 upgrade. I asked that they be placed in the tree. I looked up some of the SNPs in my Yfull BAM and they are valid SNPs but were not used in my analysis. I don't know why that is. It will be interesting to see where all these new named variants will be placed.

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