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From: Ann Turner <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Autosomal DNA success story -Thanks
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 06:45:55 -0800
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The smaller segments may be what I have taken to calling pseudo-segments,
composed of little bits and pieces where the father contributed some alleles
and the mother contributed other alleles. This can make it *appear* that
there's one long consecutive run. For example, I looked at a case where the
mother and child both had a match to a cousin. There was one long segment
(8.75 cM) plus eleven shorter segments. Only two of the eleven shorter
segments were found in the mother.

Ann Turner

On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 5:38 AM, Patricia Hamill <> wrote:

>
> I have been also looking at matches whom I share overlapping
> segments with other matches [I am sure that there is a better way to
> state that sentence - sorry].
>
> At FTDNA, I have 16 close and immediate matches on the FTDNA default
> level and above. I then dropped it down to 1cM and checked for
> overlapping segments. All 16 overlap at different segments and
> different chromosomes and with different matches. I have not known
> what to make of this. I was trying to untangle them and created a
> mess. I have not contacted these matches with this information
> because I fear that I am making wild assumptions and don't wish waste
> their time over nothing.
>

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