Re:GlaxoSmithKline makes $300M investment in 23andMe, forms ...
by endorphone on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @05:32PM
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If intelligence agencies wanted DNA it seems remarkably easy for them to collect. We leave our DNA everywhere.
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Re:GlaxoSmithKline makes $300M investment in 23andMe, forms ...
by jonknee on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @07:26PM
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Sure, but it would be a massive amount of work to go collect millions of samples and sequence them. Like how researchers are using the data to solve crimes, you need a large set of data to get good results out of. In my scenario you would collect the DNA of your target (say, Trump) and then use the 23andMe data to try and dig up dirt on relatives (say, his illegitimate children).