Mats Carlin

Research director @sintef

[Mats Carlin @MatsCarlin]

@EadaoinSays Dear Eadaoin, interesting study. I have a clue for one of the individuals in your study. I run a citizen science project on mtDNA haplogroup W, and we have present day testers matching one of your samples from Roopkund.

[Mats Carlin @MatsCarlin]

@vagheesh @sciencemagazine The .geno files seems to contain only the autosomal markers, no mtDNA markers. Chromosome 24 is clearly Y.

[Mats Carlin @MatsCarlin]

@vagheesh @sciencemagazine Thank you for your answer. The BAMs are quite heavy files to download, especially if you need to download 500 of them to identify a small portion of maybe 10-15 of them. I assume the .geno files only contain those mtDNA position that were relevant for PhyloTree?

[Mats Carlin @MatsCarlin]

@vagheesh @sciencemagazine Many new subclades have been discovered since February 2016 when PhyloTree was updated. Only in the W haplogroup there are now more than 300 new subclades which are not listed in PhyloTree.

[Mats Carlin @MatsCarlin]

@vagheesh @sciencemagazine I wonder if the mtDNA mutations of the individual samples will be made available? I made a request about this per e-mail, but no reply. Many of the reported mtDNA haplogroups are a bit outdated since PhyloTree has not been updated in three years.