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WilliamKF
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What is considered a strong match on a Big-Y DNA test?

I have done Big-Y on FamilyTreeDNA for a single individual and considering others as well as using the YFull interpretation service without fully understanding how to use it because I wanted to capture the data.

I know it is all still very new and people are still trying to figure out how to use it for genealogy (and not just research purposes) but FamilyTreeDNA recently in the last few months added "matching".. the strongest match so far is 26,768 matching SNPs with 2 known non-matching SNP markers and 26,516 with 1 known non-matching SNP marker.

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FamilyTree DNA implies their are currently 36,288 known SNPs (for the tested individuals) in their catalog, where as a sample YFull report shows 63,329.

So I was wondering if anyone has found any good guidance on using the test for "matching" yet and what exactly is a strong match?

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