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We could sit here and argue until the clowns come home, but I think the problem here is that we don't actually KNOW enough about clown genetics and the histories of the varieties available. Hopefully some of those studies oama mentioned will help us to better understand this when/if they are published.
As far as the mis-barring, all I know is what I have experienced myself--that I can take a batch of clowns from the same pair, split it in two groups, and deliberately grow one half "normal" and one half "misbarred," which suggested to me at least some environmental component to barring patterns. There is a limit to how much of the striping pattern I can change (that head stripe is hard to get rid of on ocellaris, I have a bunch of o's that look like tomatoes!), but I'm always experimenting...
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