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I suspect this is short tandem repeats - not full genome data. https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/what-str-analysis https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/what-s
by shagie 5y ago
I suspect this is short tandem repeats - not full genome data.
https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/what-str-analysis https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/what-str-analysis
> Among the 3 million or so DNA bases that do not code for proteins are regions with multiple copies of short repeating sequences of these bases, which make up the DNA backbone (for example, TATT). These sequences repeat a variable number of times in different individuals. Such regions are called "variable number short tandem repeats," and they are the basis of STR analysis. A collection of these can give nearly irrefutable evidence statistically of a person's identity because the likelihood of two unrelated people having the same number of repeated sequences in these regions becomes increasingly small as more regions are analyzed.
http://www.biology.arizona.edu/human_bio/activities/blackett2/str_description.html http://www.biology.arizona.edu/human_bio/activities/blackett...
https://forensicsdigest.com/short-tandem-repeats-or-strs/ https://forensicsdigest.com/short-tandem-repeats-or-strs/
https://youtu.be/9bEAJYnVVBA https://youtu.be/9bEAJYnVVBA
This isn't data that you could reconstruct a genetic disease from. It is more akin to a hash function for an individual's genome. The data would be 13 pairs of numbers (13 STR loci and the number of repeats on each chromosome at that location).
This would be PII, but likely not HIPAA.