“DNA and me” strikes again.

Thanks for posting, will read again

I find it interesting that the NIH is getting into this conversation. A government agency doesn’t approve of the sharing of data to another government agency dealing in law enforcement. I suppose the NIH itself isn’t sharing a damn thing, right??

If you go by the title then it’s odd, but reading the article isn’t not like the Ancestry.com opened up their database for a search.

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Insurers would love to screen out people with genetic markers for expensive diseases. Ditto company HR departments.

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Yep.

And even if we eventually get single payer, it's still a problem. The government will want to forcibly sterilize people who might pass on risky genes (and according to Nancy Depreo, the Mississippi ambassador for rare diseases, everyone has at least five bad pieces of DNA - most rare diseases are caused by getting a bad roll of the dice from both parents).

That's before you even get into potential political abuse, ie finding genetically influenced diseases that are correlated with groups of people the government dislikes.

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I am starting to regret my earlier decisions to participate in dna testing.

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What did you do in the past that you could be charged with? You can tell me. I promise not to tell others.

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Never understood why people willingly sent their DNA to these companies thinking that LE would never try to access that data

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In this case, as in the Golden State Killer case, it wasn't the suspect, it was relatives, and not even particularly close relatives.

By the same token you can go online and find your family history has already been done going back many generations by people you've never met with whom you share a common ancestor.

People haven't figured out yet that every single thing about them is accessible and for sale

Has this story made its way to the OT yet?

1999 Murder of two teens

Two Alabama teens got lost on the way to a birthday party in 1999. One called her mother to tell they were heading home because they couldn’t find the party location, and that was the last time anyone heard from them. Their car was later found with their bodies in the trunk.

A DNA match was made through a family member, and an arrest was made.

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according to Nancy Depreo, the Mississippi ambassador for rare diseases, everyone has at least five bad pieces of DNA - most rare diseases are caused by getting a bad roll of the dice from both parents

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I’m a bona fide O-Ter, and as such, I have exactly ZERO bad pieces of DNA.

So I’ve got nothing to hide.