Untangling the Centimorgans on Your DNA Test • FamilySearch


Understanding what centimorgans are and viewing how they are measured on a centimorgan chart can help you make sense of your DNA results.
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I have what is called a double match. Do you have information on that?
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How many Centimorgans does 1 person have? I know you get 1/2 from mom and 1/2 from dad, but how many do you have altogether?
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If you hav't get answer I can tell you that according to my knowledge it should be arround 7.000 cM.
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Thank you, familysearch and Annelie, for all of us lay people understand cM
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Is this wording correct:
centimorgan is a measure of the probability that a shared DNA segment of a particular size will be swapped between chromozones during egg fertilization, which may determine the likelihood of sharing genetic traits.
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I'm trying to find my father, I been talking to a man who maybe my uncle or half sibling I found him through DNA on ancestry. This is what ancestry says Shared DNA: 1,529 cM across 40 segments. Is that sound right, could he be either my uncle or half sibling with those numbers
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Possible DNA relationships
This table shows the percentage of the time people sharing 1,529 cM have the following relationships:
PercentRelationship99%Grandparent
Grandchild
Half sibling
Aunt/uncle
Niece/nephew
<1%1st cousin
Great-grandparent
Great-grandchild
Grandaunt/granduncle
This is through ancestry
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