They can already tell you about foreign DNA

in #dna6 years ago

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Imagine that the police and the security services can track you on DNA even if you have never done the necessary analyzes in your life and are convinced that you are not in any genetic database. In Europe and North America, things are already that way.

The popularity of widely advertised genetic tests promising to reveal the whole truth about the origin of your ancestors and to find distant relatives has led to the fact that the companies that offer them have accumulated millions of samples of DNA. With their help, almost every person of European descent can be discovered.

This was the year in which a serial killer was discovered in California, whose personality was unclear for nearly 40 years. The police had the DNA of the criminal, but it was useless: over the course of decades, no genetic database could provide matching results.

Since then, only for the last half year, at least 13 serious crimes have been reported in the United States.