This may explain some of the secrecy about those SNPs:
http://forums.familytreedna.com/showthread.php?p=382421
"Two SNPs have been found downstream of L448+ CTS4179-, but each has only
been found in one person to date. So they may not be large in scope."
-Michael
> I remembered the PF6441 SNP that was announced some months ago. But it is
> no longer on the Y-tree. I could mean that it's been delegated to
> "private" SNP status--meaning it has been found only in a single family.
> (I'd love to find a SNP that belongs only to us!)
>
> I found this discussion from earlier in the year about it:
>
> "PF4661 is an SNP mutation downstream of L448 and parallel to CTS4179.
> Importantly, we suspect that it may define the entire cluster 8.B2, as it
> was found in kit N11381 from this particular grouping. Thus, all other
> members of 8.B2 are encouraged to order this new SNP at YSEQ."
>
> We're in cluster B4. Like us, B2 is L448+ and CTS4179- . The SNP can be
> tested at either ftdna or yseq. Don, if you'd like to grab PF4661, I'll
> do YP355 in a couple of weeks. Although there are few SNPs available to us
> now, we should try to keep up with impending deluge.
>
> -Michael
>
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Received on Mon May 05 2014 - 04:15:10 CDT