“People have been wondering how long it will be before you can use DNA to detect just about anybody,” said Ruth Dickover...
That guy in the mirror is up to somethin'! And why is that car making all the same turns as us? Thanks fieldmarshaldj.
Posted on 10/13/2018 5:13:59 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Because I’m asking you x-spurts to provide me something relevant. What is it that you know that I don’t?
All I’ve seen so far is fuzzy hypotheticals and unfalsifiable contrivances.
My point, if you care to listen, is that none of us would have imagined when we were young that these Technologies would ever exist in our Lifetimes. (thus my Twilight Zone analogy)
Nowadays People are tracked by their Cell Phone location which had solved a lot of Crimes. DNA, not even your own DNA, can lead the Authorities to you if you are a Criminal.
It apparently works for the good of Society, but with the good there will always be a “what if” bad side.
So far, this Technology has been a positive step. So far...
Just my $.02, your Mileage may Vary.
Which is why we had to change our application programs entirely.
I'm also not on board with genealogy applications, and I actually do genealogy to keep my analytical computer skills sharp.
30 states had laws relating to this ten years ago, and six were getting grumpy about it.
I had my DNA done at Ancestry and now I am wondering if my Father was really my Father. My Mother’s side of the DNA was pretty much what I expected 42% Eastern European and the rest split between Eastern European Jew and Russian. My Father’s side which should have been English was 42% German and only 8% England/ Wales. My Grandmother was born in England. My Father’s paternal ancestry emigrated to America in the 1600’s and I can trace their line back to the 1500’s in England. Things that make you go hmmm.
The English royal house was intermingled with the German royal houses through both Victoria and Prince Albert.
Their courts were probably similarly weighted.
“People have been wondering how long it will be before you can use DNA to detect just about anybody,” said Ruth Dickover...
That guy in the mirror is up to somethin'! And why is that car making all the same turns as us? Thanks fieldmarshaldj.
Think of it this way (yes I know the number is not right, but it makes the math easier): Your mom has 100 genes and your dad has 100 genes. They will each pass 50 genes on to a child, but they will not be the same 50 genes for each child.
I understand that. But when their kids come up with roots neither of the parents have, that stumps me.
Worried your brother will turn you in? Inadvertently or otherwise?
No. Are you a little thick?
Just because these databases have been used appropriately so far does not mean they will used properly in the future.
Just imagine what the National Socialists could have done with such a database, and you start approaching the worst case scenario.
I did one more sample, this one as even as possible, to perhaps better illustrate the point. It still doesn't account for my being part pastrami sandwich, but anyway... each of us (short of having Down Syndrome, Turner Syndrome, etc) has only half the possible genetic information available from each parent. The closest we get to a 50/50 split of each grandparent is 12 & 11, so this sample table just arbitrarily assigns each side of the family that way. Naturally, that gradually skews more toward one or the other. By the time this reaches the great-great-great-great-grandparents, there are a maximum of 64 people, but only 46 chromosomes (23 from dad, 23 from mom) to spread around. Barring a crossed stream somewhere in the interim, at least 18 of those GGGGgrands haven't passed any of their chromosomes to you, at all -- yet they are still your ancestors.
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