Ancestry DNA
May 2nd 2018, 2:19 pm
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May 2nd 2018, 2:30 pm
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re: Ancestry DNA
Come on I'm ex forces, world of soggy biscuit.........
May 2nd 2018, 2:35 pm
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re: Ancestry DNA
Ah, you were in the Navy, then?
May 2nd 2018, 2:54 pm
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May 2nd 2018, 3:29 pm
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May 2nd 2018, 4:03 pm
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re: Ancestry DNA
AIUI the police uploaded the suspect's DNA, collected from the original investigation, to a genealogical site and then used the matches they received to fairly distant relatives of the suspect to narrow down their search.
This doesn't seem very different to me from cases where they police have been able to make partial DNA matches to arrested other suspects' DNA which tell them that their suspect is a relative of the other suspects and allows them to narrow down their searches.
I really don't see what the objection could be to this.
This doesn't seem very different to me from cases where they police have been able to make partial DNA matches to arrested other suspects' DNA which tell them that their suspect is a relative of the other suspects and allows them to narrow down their searches.
I really don't see what the objection could be to this.
May 2nd 2018, 4:31 pm
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re: Ancestry DNA
May 2nd 2018, 4:44 pm
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re: Ancestry DNA
No, they "uploaded" this guy's DNA sample for analysis, but used a fake name in doing so. But there appears there was nothing in the conditions of that website preventing them from doing so, one could literally call yourself anybody.
May 2nd 2018, 5:15 pm
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re: Ancestry DNA
They must have run the DNA themselves and them uploaded the results.
From the PBS interview:
Investigators took DNA of the suspected killer from an old crime scene, and they uploaded it to a public genealogy database called GEDmatch. It’s the kind that people use to track down distant relatives or trace their own ancestry.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/go...er-dna-privacy
May 2nd 2018, 5:20 pm
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re: Ancestry DNA
How do you upload a sample of spit/hair/semen to a website?
They must have run the DNA themselves and them uploaded the results.
From the PBS interview:
Investigators took DNA of the suspected killer from an old crime scene, and they uploaded it to a public genealogy database called GEDmatch. It’s the kind that people use to track down distant relatives or trace their own ancestry.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/go...er-dna-privacy
They must have run the DNA themselves and them uploaded the results.
From the PBS interview:
Investigators took DNA of the suspected killer from an old crime scene, and they uploaded it to a public genealogy database called GEDmatch. It’s the kind that people use to track down distant relatives or trace their own ancestry.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/go...er-dna-privacy
May 2nd 2018, 6:09 pm
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re: Ancestry DNA
My FIL recently found a cousin he didn't know about using one of those DNA matching sites. His mother was adopted so almost nothing was known about her biological family, it seems that each of the children in her family was adopted by different families in different states, so there may be more cousins yet to come.