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The ability to match dna to individuals is sadly pretty easy and even the idea that you can "de-identify" dna is the elephant in the room for things like HIPPA
by conception 8y ago
The ability to match dna to individuals is sadly pretty easy and even the idea that you can "de-identify" dna is the elephant in the room for things like HIPPA since dna is the most identifiable thing a person has.
Looking at things like this - https://phys.org/news/2013-03-easy-identity-cell.html https://phys.org/news/2013-03-easy-identity-cell.html
https://33bits.wordpress.com/about/ https://33bits.wordpress.com/about/
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Having DNA and just looking at the traits that person has will reduce the population down to a pretty manageable number. Any other bits - location, gender, etc will be enough to make an educated guess to an almost certain one. This will not become more difficult to do in the future.
- echelon 8y agoI wouldn't be surprised if we trained ML models to map DNA to adult faces. It doesn't seem out of the realm of possibility.
- m1573rp34130dy 8y agothere is a thing called developmental noise, thats the outcome of phenotype after post expressional events further modify the expression products [proteins, RNA, MeDNA etc.] the face you interpolate from genetic sequence will be an approximation.
- JProthero 8y agoA company founded by Craig Venter and Peter Diamandis (Human Longevity Inc) has been working on this and published a paper about it last year in PNAS [1], but it attracted some scepticism from other researchers in the field (the paper was rejected for publication by Science) [2]. [1] http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/08/29/1711125114 http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/08/29/1711125114 [2] https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608813/does-your-genome-predict-your-face-not-quite-yet/ https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608813/does-your-genome-p...