New reports reveal that police have successfully used DNA information from Ancestry.com as part of their police investigations, raising privacy concerns about the police access to such data.
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Total jump scare with the incoming drone attack. This was a scary news story on two totally different fronts.
I love Lindsay turrentine
People need to get rid of these conspiracy theories.
@3:46 She says that usually when the police need to match DNA they search public DNA databases but now since 23andme and Ancestry.com have large databases, the police can search them. That's not true because there's one problem that you have to understand: the public DNA database that the police search is CODIS.
CODIS DNA tests, the standard forensic identity and paternity/maternity tests, are testing genetic markers that identify individuals. That is completely different from the SNP markers that the genomics companies such as 23andme/Ancestry.com look at in their tests.
In the Michael Usry case, his father had done a Y Chromosome DNA test through Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation, which later became a part of Ancestry.com. The Y Chromosome DNA test uses STR markers that the standard CODIS DNA tests look at, thereby giving the impression that the suspect's DNA and Michael Usry's father were similar enough that the police thought that the suspect would have to be the son, Michael Usry. Ancestry.com got rid of their Y Chromosome and MtDNA tests over a year ago, and 23andme never had that kind of test.
Both companies look at SNP testing, which is incompatible.
You can not look at a CODIS DNA profile and try to compare it to SNPs. Won't happen.
People should do a little bit of research before they jump to conclusion with the conspiracy theories.