{"id":84257,"date":"2018-11-01T12:05:42","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T19:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/should-genealogy-data-be-used-to-solve-crimes"},"modified":"2018-11-01T15:01:52","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T22:01:52","slug":"should-genealogy-data-be-used-to-solve-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/should-genealogy-data-be-used-to-solve-crimes","title":{"rendered":"Should genealogy data be used to solve crimes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/should-genealogy-data-be-used-to-solve-crimes.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New research shows how police could use forensic DNA to track down a suspect\u2019s relatives in genealogy databases that store a different kind of genetic data\u2014and that were never intended for use in police investigations.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, if your sibling leaves DNA at a crime scene, it could lead detectives to your door. That suggests new investigative possibilities for police\u2014and also new concerns about genetic privacy and whether authorities who use forensic DNA in creative ways might be overstepping their bounds, says Noah Rosenberg, a professor of biology at Stanford University and senior author of a study, which appears in <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.cell.2018.09.008\"><em>Cell<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe potential to link people\u2019s genotypes across databases has been developing for some time. It is both of interest and concerning, depending on one\u2019s point of view,\u201d says Rosenberg, who is also a member of Stanford Bio-X.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.futurity.org\/genealogy-data-crimes-forensics-1901642\/\">https:\/\/www.futurity.org\/genealogy-data-crimes-forensics-1901642\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research shows how police could use forensic DNA to track down a suspect\u2019s relatives in genealogy databases that store a different kind of genetic data\u2014and that were never intended for use in police investigations. In other words, if your sibling leaves DNA at a crime scene, it could lead detectives to your door. That [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84271,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84257\/revisions\/84271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}