This genetic cousin matches both my mother and her brother. This match is revealed in his account, but not hers. |
The first hint I had about missing matches in the system was with my father's third cousin. I compared my mother to my father's third cousin by chance and was surprised that they matched. Neither appears in the other's Relative Finder. As explained above, my mother is maxed out on matches, but this cousin only has about 600 matches, no where near the limit. Yet because my mother was maxed out in her account, this cousin was prevented from seeing her in his account. I wonder how many more cousins she has in the database that are not discoverable.
23andMe comparison of known third cousins, matching on chromosomes 13 and 21. Also matches my mother through unknown connections. |
To take this a step further, at 23andMe this third cousin and I share no genetic material. If you compare us at GEDmatch, we do match, but strangely, not on the large areas on 13 and 21 that my father shares with this third cousin and not on the smaller segment on 18 that he shares with my mother. He and I share a 5.8 cM match on chromosome 1, which is another area where he matches my mother. This segment is large enough that 23andMe should have picked it up. (Their minimum threshold is 5 cM. Matches smaller than this may be coincidental.)
GEDmatch comparison between R.S. and my uncle. The two tiny segments may be coincidental and not suggestive of shared ancestry. |
GEDmatch comparison between R.S. and my mother. The largest match on chromosome 18 is the one match identified by 23andMe. |
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