Re: MtDna H5 reassigned to H36 at 23andMe.com
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Re: MtDna H5 reassigned to H36 at 23andMe.com
Sherry McClellan 2/01/11
Sherry --
As Sam mentioned, James Lick's tool is a good one to determine your haplogroup. 23andMe has a problem with the probe for 16304, which I have reported. Once that's corrected, I suspect you will be H5 again.
The mtDNA haplogroup assignment isn't important for your Health and Trait reports or locating your matches in Relative Finder.
If you are referring to the percentages you see in Compare Genes, they're just a general indication of whether you come out of the same gene pool. That is, if you have all European ancestry, your highest numbers will be for other Europeans, and your lowest numbers will be for the reference samples from other continents. It compares your results one SNP at a time. If you and your match have upgraded to version 3 (~960,000 SNPs vs ~ 550,000 SNPs on v2), your percentages will tend to run higher.
Relative Finder is different, because it requires that you match someone for hundreds of SNPs in a row. That just doesn't happen unless you inherit the same segment from a common ancestor.
The Ancestry Painting has gray areas for everyone. These are regions with very repetitive DNA patterns, and very few SNPs have been discovered in them. Ancestry Painting doesn't use mtDNA haplogroups at all.
Ann Turner
Disclosure: I have a consulting arrangement with 23andMe, but the statements expressed above are my own and not official policy of 23andMe.