Testing Recommendatons (March, 2013)

Candidates for L1336 testing (in order of testing priority and decreasing odds of testing positive) include:

1) All six testing candidates with 10 of 10 matches should probably test positve. Also, all submissions that match 8 of 10 and 9 of 10 as well as test positive for 456 <= 15 should mostly test positive as well. See the L1336 spreadsheet under the DNA Results pull down menu for a listing of over 100 good testing candidates.

2) For fingerprint matches of 8 of 10 and 9 of 10 without 456 <= 15, many submissions could test positive as well. Those submissions that also have 576 <= 17 are more likely to test positive. At 8 of 10 and 9 of 10 matches, testing positive will average lower than 50 percent.

3) For the fingerprint matches at 7 of 10, a few submissions should test positive as well. Again, those submissions with 456 <= 15 and 576 <= 17 having higher odds of testing positive. Since the true scope of L1336 is not well known, lower fingerprint matches should be tested as well. However, lower fingerprint matches only have a five to ten percent chance of testing positive. Testing 6 of 10 matches could produce a few positive results but these tests should be considered speculative in nature.