Post by Any of N on Jun 22, 2017 1:09:27 GMT
That is a big hint, that they have taken advantage of all available technologies. The police agency I work for used Snapshot on a cold case homicide, and we got back a facial DNA profile. It was interesting, but the case remains unsolved. I was actually more impressed with Identifinders International. They ran the 17 loci Y-filer DNA profile and gave us a likely last name for our suspect. It would be interesting to see if they could run the EAR's DNA through family tree or Ancestry.com and help track him down that way. I'm sure there are some legalities to do that. When I ran my DNA through Ancestry.com it informed me of 460 close cousins, and it even found a few of my first cousins that had ran their profiles as well.
This is my first day on this site, so please forgive me if all of this has been discussed already.
The claim is that LE has requested DNA information all of six times from Ancestry.com or 23andMe, or something like that. You can count me as one of those people who gets antsy about having my DNA on file, even if it's in a private database that supposedly won't share without a warrant. It's a matter of principal. Call it good privacy hygiene.
That's interesting about Identifiers International. They came up with one possible surname or a ranked set?
Given that there's over a hundred alleles that affect our height, I assume there could be hundreds (maybe thousands) that affect our facial appearance. It's going to be awhile before all that gets teased out, so a DNA reconstruction will be likely be no better than a general approximation for now. Then again, I'm a big skeptic.