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My understanding is that it is "good accuracy" for purposes such as curiousity about what a Denisovan might have looked like. There was discussion of trying to
by rossdavidh 7y ago
My understanding is that it is "good accuracy" for purposes such as curiousity about what a Denisovan might have looked like. There was discussion of trying to use it for police purposes (if you have DNA of the perpetrator can you create a sketch of their appearance), and the general consensus was that it was not accurate enough for high-stakes purposes like that. But presumably, someday it may be.
- BurningFrog 7y agoPretty sure you can at least get skin and hair color from DNA now. I'm sure people are throwing CPU peta-cycles on machine learning this as we speak!
- madhadron 7y agoYou can get a range of skin colors, since it depends heavily on how much sun an individual is exposed to. Hair color should be pretty straightforward, but, again, depends on the amount of sun and the prevalence of hair dye in the population.