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From: "Alfred A. Aburto Jr." <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Matching
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 13:00:15 -0700
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> ed day wrote:

>Hi,
> If two persons with different surnames have an
>exact match on a 37 marker test, what does that mean?
>Need possible conclusions.
>--Ed
>
>

See: http://www.familytreedna.com/trs_explain.html

In a nutshell though it means these two people had a common ancestor
within approximately 7 generations ago (95% probability).
Al

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