{"id":7929,"date":"2018-11-13T17:49:36","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T17:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7929"},"modified":"2018-11-13T17:49:36","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T17:49:36","slug":"thinking-about-that-not-so-shared-chunk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7929","title":{"rendered":"Thinking about that Not-So-Shared Chunk"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’ve been painting my DNA matches in DNAPainter. It’s fun, but it’s not really about the fun.<\/p>\n

In looking at shared matches on one of my chromosomes, I was reminded of a key concept that can be easy to forget in our attempts to “figure out as much as we can as fast as we can.”<\/p>\n

The bluish match in the illustrated image is a grandson of my great-grandparents (Fred and Tena). The brown match is a grandson of my Fred’s parents. Having larger bluish sections is not a surprise since M-U is more closely related to me than L-U. I just have to be careful in that region of M-U’s shared match that I have circled.<\/p>\n

I can’t make any conclusions about the region that I’ve circled–other than that M-U and I share it.<\/p>\n

I might be tempted to think that the circled region has to come from\u00a0 Fred’s wife Tena–since the brown region is from a descendant of Fred’s parents and the brown region does not include what’s been circled. But that circled region that I share with Fred and Tena’s descendant (and not with the descendant of Fred’s parents) could have come from Fred’s parents and not been a segment that was passed on to Fred’s brother who is L-U’s father. I’ll have to wait until there are other matches on this chromosome to potentially determine where that chunk comes from “further back.”<\/p>\n

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I’ve been painting my DNA matches in DNAPainter. It’s fun, but it’s not really about the fun. In looking at shared matches on one of my chromosomes, I was reminded of a key concept that can be easy to forget in our attempts to “figure out as much as we can as fast as we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}