Just realized that in the case of an unsolved murder with unknown DNA evidence, you could not only: 1. Determine race, but also 2. Use relative info on 23&me and cross reference with genealogy to narrow down suspects to a handful
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The funny thing is that the above tweets were actually inspired by a mention of using DNA to identify a suspect (the story in the news today), but I had no idea at the time that they had used relative data.
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In fact, the first reports that they used this kind of data came out 8 hours ago, but my tweet was almost 24 hours ago. I totally anticipated this news.
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already many cases of police making matches in public DNA databases to make family connections, e.g.https://www.wired.com/2015/10/familial-dna-evidence-turns-innocent-people-into-crime-suspects/ …
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