Definitions
Definitions
- C: Chronicle, which is used to identify SNPs named in the DNAChron
- DC: Alphabetic abbreviation of DNAChron, which can be used as a numbering prefix for the tester
- A: ancient, which is used to identify ancient samples
- ybp: Years Before Present, which is used to identify the most recent common ancestral age of this paternal branch
- BAM: a compressed binary version of a SAM file (a text-based format for storing biological sequences), which is used to represent the aligned sequence of a comprehensive Y-DNA test. It is the most common form of file for Y chromosome depth testing
- CRAM: a re-encoded version of a SAM file
- SNP: Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism
- MNP: Multiple-Nucleotide Polymorphism
- Indel: Insertion deletion
- CI: Confidence interval
- Y Chromosome Region Names
- XDG: X Degenerated Region
- XTR: X Transposed Region
- AMP: Ampliconic Region
- SAT: Satellite DNA Region, containing a large amount of highly repetitive non-coding sequences
- CEN: Centromeric Region
- DYZ17: DYZ17 Highly Repetitive Sequence Region
- DYZ18: DYZ18 Highly Repetitive Sequence Region
- DYZ19: DYZ19 Highly Repetitive Sequence Region
- HET: Heterochromatic Region
- OTHER: Other Undefined Regions