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Sure, but if a sibling or another direct parent does, your DNA can be inferred, or close enough to pinpoint you.
by jasonjayr 7y ago
Sure, but if a sibling or another direct parent does, your DNA can be inferred, or close enough to pinpoint you.
- paulddraper 7y agoNot really. If a sibling or parent sends DNA sample X, they do not know what your DNA is. If someone also provides DNA sample Y, they can know that it is the DNA of a relative of X. But...is that really worse than normal life? That's approximate not admissible in court. And DNA or not you can already figure out someone's associates a hundred different ways.
- ceejayoz 7y ago> But...is that really worse than normal life? For an anonymous sperm donor, potentially from the other side of the country decades ago? Absolutely.
- paulddraper 7y agoAt the point you are donating...IDK all bets are off no?
- Izkata 7y agoThe Golden State Killer was identified because of a DNA match to a distant relative on one of these sites: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/true-crime/wp/2018/04/27/golden-state-killer-dna-website-gedmatch-was-used-to-identify-joseph-deangelo-as-suspect-police-say/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/true-crime/wp/2018/04/27...