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Opinion: The risks of sharing your DNA with online companies aren't a future concern. They're here now
Although Wojcicki has since said she is focused on taking 23andMe private, the data-sharing risks raised by DNA testing and matching companies are already here. A class-action lawsuit filed in August ...
Burned body found in vacant Georgia lot 28 years ago, officials say. Now man identified
A Georgia man lit on fire and left to die in a vacant lot 28 years ago now has a name. Using genetic genealogy, the DNA Doe ...
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DNA genealogy research helped track down murder suspect in 50-year-old Dunn County cold case
They used that DNA to find matches within the suspect's family who have voluntarily uploaded their information to genetic ...
'Fulton County John Doe' identified 28 years after body found doused in kerosene, set on fire
Nearly three decades after an unidentified man was set on fire in a brutal 1996 attack in southeast Atlanta, officials have ...
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UPDATE: Evidence that led to arrest of Owatonna man in a 50-year-old cold case
ROCHESTER, Minn. (KTTC) – Jon K. Miller, 84, of Owatonna was arrested on Nov. 7 for the 1974 murder of Mary Schlias. Schlias ...
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Investigators make arrest in hitchhiking woman’s death 50 years later
Mary Schlias was hitchhiking from Minneapolis to Chicago when the then-25-year-old was picked up and stabbed to death. Her ...
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Opinion: The risks of sharing your DNA with online companies aren’t a future concern. They’re here now
GEDmatch stands apart from companies such as 23andMe. It’s an open, crowdsourced database that anyone can search. Founded in 2010, it emerged as a tool for genealogy enthusiasts to upload DNA ...
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Guest column: Risks of sharing DNA with online companies aren’t a future concern. They’re here now
GEDmatch stands apart from companies such as 23andMe. It’s an open, crowdsourced database that anyone can search. Founded in 2010, it emerged as a tool for genealogy enthusiasts to upload DNA ...