Auto Clustering at MyHeritage

[davidft]

Just seen this at the bottom of the auto clustering explanation page.

'The AutoClustering feature on MyHeritage was developed in collaboration with Evert-Jan Blom.'

Evert-Jan Blom was the chap who set up Genetic Affairs and who responded on the thread that David has linked to.

Regards Margaret

Interesting. I saw the name but didn't connect it to the previous incarnation of the idea. Still feel better that the auto clustering is being done by the site and not a third party and Evert will have been recompensed for his idea I am sure so all is good. 

[weste]

i'm waiting for my clustering to come. Think it's taking awhile because loads using it. The figures I seem to think are fixed unlike genetic affairs where you can manipulate the values.I'll be interested to see the result of this one.

jean

[Mart 'n' Al]

I got all excited, reading this thread, as MyH did my test, but I don't subscribe.

Update, 18:42, David, could you comment, your original suggests that this free?

Martin

[LizzieL]

Just got my auto cluster report, but a bit confused about the accompanying explanatory pdf.

There is a section starting
The following matches have been excluded from the AutoCluster 19 analysis
because they did not have any shared matches:

and a section starting:
The following 130 matches met the inclusion criteria but ended up in singleton
clusters without other members and are therefore excluded from the analysis as well:

What's the difference between someone sharing no matches and being a member of a singleton cluster.

[Gadget]

I received  the folder at about 11 pm last might. I'm definitely underwhelmed 

My closest relative on there is a first cousin, once removed. She was in a group of her own although she matches with some of the 2nd cousins that we share.

[sugarfizzle]

LizzieL, I've got the same, 30 no shared matches, 139 singleton clusters. There must be an explanation but I can't think of one.

Gadget, Close relatives are excluded as they would be on too many clusters.

Someone asked previously, can't remember who, and you can adjust the settings, standard are matches between 20 cM and 350 cM, so probably wouldn't include your cousin once removed.

Mine apparently came through at 7 pm yesterday, but didn't see it yesterday, have only just turned laptop on, trying to see the results.

Having trouble extracting my zip file.

Regards Margaret

[familydar]

Like Gadget, my results took several hours to arrive.  Looking at them this morning they have a lot more matches and also a lot more clusters, each with more members, than the ancestry set I did with GA using the default settings, so perhaps the default settings differ between sites or perhaps more of my distant cousins have their results on MH than Ancestry.

I like the animation - sad I know - puts me in mind of a very old computer game called battle chess.

It remains to be seen whether it enables any breakthroughs.  I had worked out for myself that I probably have an NPE on one particular line three or four generations back because I have absolutely no DNA matches - not on Ancestry, not on FTDNA, not on MH, not on GEDMatch - to anyone who traces the same line back, but a reasonable scattering across almost all other lines.  Perhaps this clustering will help me identify a candidate father.

Jane :-)

[Gadget]

Gadget, Close relatives are excluded as they would be on too many clusters.

Margaret, it  said this:

# The following 220 matches met the inclusion parameters but were placed in a cluster without other members and so are not included

She is in this list but my other close relatives are in the same cluster.

What I share with the top 3 - all related : 226/9; 215/12; 200/8  (ADDED - She is the 226 one)
I assume that the clustering is not just the cMs but also the segment matches,etc.

[Gadget]

Jane

Ancestry has thrown up most of my close matches, although I do prefer My Heritage's tools.

Gadget