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Shared Clustering Wiki
Shared Clustering Wiki Supplement
This Supplement leverages the existing Shared Clustering wiki.
So you will bounce back and forth between this site and the
wiki using links in these pages and the previous page button
in your browser.
- A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
- What do the Colors and Values mean?
- Walking the Clusters Back (tbd)
- Updating Notes, a Critical Step (tbd)
- A Simple Note Format
- Our Workflow (tbd)
- Performing Block Updates of Notes (tbd)
- What’s in Our Workflow Toolbox?
- Hello, I’m a Mac
Spreadsheet Tips & Tricks
These spreadsheet Tips & Tricks are written for Microsoft Excel.
Most spreadsheet applications have similar functionality, but
the menus may differ in appearance and the steps may vary.
Notes
In a clustering analysis, we are primarily looking at our
matches in their role as a shared match, appearing on an
AncestryDNA Shared Matches page.
Throughout this supplement, we will refer to our DNA matches
generally as matches, as well as when we are referring to them
appearing on an AncestryDNA Matches page.
We will refer to them as shared matches when we are referring to
them appearing on an AncestryDNA Shared Matches page.
In this supplement, surnames of real individuals appearing in
cluster diagrams are anonymized several different ways including
using the military phonetic spelling alphabet (i.e. Alfa, Bravo,
Charlie, …).
Abbreviations and Acronymns
| cM | centiMorgans |
| GGP | great-grandparent |
Definitions
Match—any of the DNA matches with Test; listed on AncestryDNA’s Test’s DNA Matches page
Shared Match—any of the shared matches between Test and Match; listed on AncestryDNA’s Shared Matches tab for Match
Shared Match Pair—any two shared matches of Match. [this is a new term and we welcome input on its suitability or an alternative]
Test—all the data in the diagram is for one AncestryDNA kit, the Test kit