DNA Sequencing Megathread! Neanderthals, Denisovans and other ancient DNA!

[Malthus]

You are the nation who detest ID cards but freely give away their full genetic information to random strangers to freely abuse in the future.

I agree with your point.  I believe one of these sites has been used by authorities to catch a criminal, many, many years after the fact.

While this is, in theory, good, it also reveals that you lose complete control over what happens with your DNA once it's given.  Who knows how it can be used in the future?

We've had a few cases here where criminals got caught when relatives of theirs joined these things. A new law was passed and currently a lot of cold cases get tested. I don't necessarily think it's a negative when brutal child rapists and murderers get caught which was the latest thing. But of course, in the wrong hands this technology could be horrible.

This was how they caught the Golden State Killer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_State_Killer

Identification of DeAngelo had begun four months earlier when officials, led by detective Paul Holes, uploaded the killer's DNA profile from a Ventura County rape kit[154][155] to the personal genomics website GEDmatch.[156] The website identified 10 to 20 distant relatives of the Golden State Killer (sharing the same great-great-great grandparents), from whom a team of five investigators working with genealogist Barbara Rae-Venter[157] constructed a large family tree. They identified two suspects in the case (one of whom was ruled out by a relative's DNA test), leaving DeAngelo the main suspect.

[Josquius]

Oh. And for the record I have no issue with ID cards. They're normal. Blame the liberal right wing media with their knee jerk "OMG THE NAZIS SAID PAPERS PLEASE"

[viper37]

I am used to giving up my personal data through social media, google, facebook etc., what is the big deal with giving my DNA, says the credulous citizen.

they will secretly engineer a super human by combining Ed Anger's, Caliga's and my DNA.

[Malthus]

I am used to giving up my personal data through social media, google, facebook etc., what is the big deal with giving my DNA, says the credulous citizen.

they will secretly engineer a super human by combining Ed Anger's, Caliga's and my DNA.

They will create a grumpy dude obsessed with big breasts and with an undying hatred of Montreal? 

[viper37]

I am used to giving up my personal data through social media, google, facebook etc., what is the big deal with giving my DNA, says the credulous citizen.

they will secretly engineer a super human by combining Ed Anger's, Caliga's and my DNA.

They will create a grumpy dude obsessed with big breasts and with an undying hatred of Montreal? 

YES!  That kind of superhuman is what we need to save the world, one pair of big breasts at a time!

[katmai]

Hey Caliga, ancestry is again updating their testing results.

[The Brain]

*relieved sigh*

[Syt]

Hey, you wanna keep your full name visible on a publically available forum?

[katmai]

Hey, you wanna keep your full name visible on a publically available forum?

Yes as it is out in world already, but thanks Syt.

[katmai]

*relieved sigh*

you and me both buddy

[Syt]

Hey, you wanna keep your full name visible on a publically available forum?

Yes as it is out in world already, but thanks Syt.

Ok, Lionel.

[Josquius]

Wow, that site has some very specific stuff for the Americas.

[katmai]

Hey, you wanna keep your full name visible on a publically available forum?

Yes as it is out in world already, but thanks Syt.

Ok, Lionel.

I love my middle name, it's my pappy and my grandpappy's name to boot 

[PDH]

Lionel means "He who wreaked havoc on Laramie" in Assyrian

[Admiral Yi]

What's with the apparent typo nombre de familia?  Some Canary Islands thingy?