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Re:New federal rules limit police searches of family tree DN... by bloak on Friday September 27, 2019 @02:49AM (#21089146)
I'm not an expert, but I would guess it would be possible to have an exact match on the genetic fingerprinting, but then do a full genome sequencing to confirm that the two samples are from different people.

The funny thing is that although I have often heard about the police finding an exact DNA match with someone who was provably not at the crime scene, I've never heard about anyone doing a different DNA test afterwards to investigate what happened: did a fragment of skin get carried in the wind from one city to another, did samples get mixed up in a laboratory, or was the match a false one, akin to a hash collision?

Re:New federal rules limit police searches of family tree DN... by jacquesm on Friday September 27, 2019 @02:54AM (#21089177)
These DNA tests do not use full genome sequencing, they use SNPs.

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