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Chromosome Browser

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.
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.

GDAT 4 (Genealogical DNA Analysis Tool) is a DNAGedcom tool. © DNAGedcom LLC 2020–2026. Genealogical DNA Analysis Tool is provided as is with no guarantee given as to its performance.

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