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30 March 2007
60 Minutes story on familial searching
FYI, this Sunday at 7pm CBS 60 Minutes will air a story, "A Not So Perfect Match" on familial searching of DNA databases. Familial searching, as I discussed last May on this blog, is the search of DNA databases for near misses that might be indicative of a family relationship between a known sample in a database and an unknown sample from a crime scene. This story is in part based on a paper of mine (along with collaborators Frederick Bieber and Charles Brenner) in Science that examined the feasibility of using kinship analysis to accurately identify family relationships in a very large database. Our conclusion: familial searching is quite practical to do, and would produce many new leads. The aggressive use of familial searching, however, raises a variety of policy, ethical and policy issues....
A broader point relevant to this blog are all of the data that are collected out there that are essentially relational, and how that information might be used. Further, to the extent that data have a relational dimension (i.e., information about me might provide insight about others I am connected to), individual-based protocols for consent might be problematic-- because third parties that might be affected are not asked for consent.
In any case, this story will be posted on the CBS News website in its entirety by Sunday evening in case you don't catch it when it airs.
Feel free to post reactions to the story here.
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Frederick Bieber, Charles Brenner, David Lazer, “Finding Criminals Through DNA of Their Relatives,” Published Online May 11, 2006, Science DOI: 10.1126/science.1122655, 2006.
Posted by David Lazer at March 30, 2007 9:48 AM
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