{"id":61776,"date":"2012-01-22T23:09:21","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T07:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=15533"},"modified":"2012-01-22T23:09:21","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T07:09:21","slug":"genetic-profiling-csi-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2012\/01\/22\/genetic-profiling-csi-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Genetic profiling: CSI edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently the national media is reporting that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattlepi.com\/local\/article\/Will-genealogy-crack-mystery-of-Federal-Way-2455313.php\">scientific genealogy may result in leads to a cold case<\/a>. The principle is simple: apparently Y chromosomal material was matched to public genealogy databases. From this the researcher concluded that the perpetrator is probably a male line descendant of Robert Fuller of Salem, Massachusetts. Contrary to the urban legends it does not seem that false paternity rates are much higher than <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2010\/06\/the-paternity-myth-the-rarity-of-cuckoldry\/\">~1 percent<\/a> in many societies (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S1090513811001115\">for example<\/a>). <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yourgeneticgenealogist.com\/2012\/01\/using-public-y-dna-profiles-to-track.html\">CeCe Moore<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegeneticgenealogist.com\/2012\/01\/11\/does-dna-link-1991-killing-to-colonial-era-family\/\">Blaine Bettinger<\/a> have covered this story in detail, so I won&#8217;t go much further in this specific case. But as more and more people get typed and sequenced I suspect that genetic material is going to be more and more &#8220;actionable.&#8221; What long term effects will this have? Will criminals start taking precautions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently the national media is reporting that scientific genealogy may result in leads to a cold case. The principle is simple: apparently Y chromosomal material was matched to public genealogy databases. From this the researcher concluded that the perpetrator is probably a male line descendant of Robert Fuller of Salem, Massachusetts. Contrary to the urban [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,82,360],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics","category-genomics","category-personal-genomics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61776"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61785,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61776\/revisions\/61785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}