What it's for: painting your shared DNA segments across the
23 chromosomes, colored by testing company — a visual map of where your matches overlap.
Reading the browser
Each chromosome is drawn as a bar; every shared segment is painted onto it, colored by
source (the same colors as the chips in Matches).
The scope chip reads All matches by default, or Person #… when
you've selected a match — this is one of the three screens that follows the
selected match (look for the accent dot in the sidebar).
The summary shows the segment count, e.g. “12,430 segments” or
“6,000 of 18,900 segments (capped)” when a very large kit is trimmed for
performance.
The Chromosome Browser — shared segments painted across the chromosomes, colored by company.
False-positive regions are excluded. Segments overlapping your kit's
false-positive regions (pile-ups and centromeres) are left out, so you're not
misled by spurious matches.
Ancestry-only kits show nothing here. Ancestry doesn't provide segment
data, so a kit imported only from Ancestry has no segments to paint. Use kits from FTDNA, 23andMe, MyHeritage,
or GEDmatch for chromosome work.