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I wonder what is the minimum % of people that need to have their DNA sequenced in order for any human to be able to be identified. The police cases mentioned in
by return0 8y ago
I wonder what is the minimum % of people that need to have their DNA sequenced in order for any human to be able to be identified. The police cases mentioned in the past hint that we are already.
- 420codebro 8y agoI’ve read 10-20%. Of those are positive IDs it becomes real easy go find cold case suspects.
- gwern 8y agohttps://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/145599v3 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/145599v3 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2019/01/29/531384.full.pdf https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2019/01/29/531...
- return0 8y agothanks. it seems that already (considering only GEDMatch's 850000 samples): > Its also striking that were already in an era in which familial searches against publicly accessible SNP databases are feasible for a lot of cases, probably the majority of cases where the suspect has substantial recent ancestry in the US