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To what extent the bone marrow donor databases are subject to the same risk of police fishing expeditions? Do they hold full DNA profile, or just the fragments

• astura 9y ago
  Of course not. Unlike ancestry websites, the purpose of bone marrow database is not to connect users to relatives. Police don't have the ability to send crime scene data into the bone marrow registry and get back "here's the subject's siblings." I don't even think you're allowed to meet someone you're matched with and donate bone marrow to; for at least several years, if not forever. The police literally uses the website as designed: "here's DNA; get back known close relatives." https://bethematch.org/privacy/ https://bethematch.org/privacy/ Edit: looks like they used an "open source" genealogy DNA website GEDMatch; not one of the commercial ones: https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2018/04/26/ancestry-23andme-deny-assisting-law-enforcement-in-east-area-rapist-case/ https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2018/04/26/ancestry-23andme-den... "Lead investigator Paul Holes, a cold case expert and retired Contra Costa County District Attorney inspector, said his team’s biggest tool was GEDmatch, a Florida-based website that pools raw genetic profiles that people share publicly. No court order was needed to access that site’s large database of genetic blueprints. Other major private DNA ancestral sites said they were not approached by police for this case." GED Match describes itself as such - "GEDmatch provides DNA and genealogical analysis tools for amateur and professional researchers and genealogists."