Your DNA is already in a database

Your hereditary code is most likely already in a database, without any you ever giving a sample or approval. The very first 200 folks to sign up via https://brilliant.org/veritasium get 20% off a yearly subscription.

Thanks to Verogen and Family Tree DNA for giving me access to video.

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References:
Phillips, C. (2018). The Golden State Killer investigation and the nascent field of forensic family tree. Forensic Technology International: Genetics, 36, 186-188. — https://ve42.co/Phillips2018

Guerrini, C. J., Robinson, J. O., Petersen, D., & McGuire, A. L. (2018). Should police have access to hereditary family tree databases? Capturing the Golden State Killer and other criminals using a contentious new forensic methodology. PLoS biology, 16(10), e2006906. — https://ve42.co/Guerrini

Ram, N., Guerrini, C. J., & McGuire, A. L. (2018). Family tree databases and the future of criminal investigation. Science, 360(6393), 1078-1079. — https://ve42.co/Ram2019

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Special thanks to Patreon constituents: Andrew, Diffbot, Micah Mangione, MJP, Gnare, Nick DiCandilo, Dave Kircher, Edward Larsen, Burt Humburg, Blake Byers, Dumky, Evgeny Skvortsov, Meekay, Bill Linder, Paul Peijzel, Mac Malkawi, Michael Schneider, Big Badaboom, Ludovic Robillard, Jim buckmaster, fanime96, Juan Benet, Ruslan Khroma, Robert Blum, Richard Sundvall, Lee Redden, Vincent, Marinus Kuivenhoven, Alfred Wallace, Clayton Greenwell, Michael Krugman, Cy ‘kkm’ K’Nelson, Sam Lutfi, Ron Neal

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Written by Derek Muller
Animation by Iván Tello and Another Angle 3D Visuals (www.anotherangle.ee)
SFX by Shaun Clifford
Filmed by Derek Muller, Raquel Nuno, Shirley Dutoit, and Emily Zhang
Edited by Derek Muller
Produced by Derek Muller and Casey Rentz
Additional video clip supplied by Getty Images
Music from Epidemic Sound https://epidemicsound.com
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7 Comments:

  1. Holy guacamoley Derek you’ve been working on this for a couple of years?
    I don’t think we really appreciate what you guys are doing here then, I’ve had no idea that some of your projects take such an amount of work and time.

    Thank you for this opportunity to learn more about DNA sampling and everything else!

  2. That reporter / cop is such a great investigator.

  3. PANdaramic Firefox

    With those unique parts, how possible, if at all, would it be to reconstruct a face with only DNA to work with?

  4. What about hacking?
    What about manufacturing DNA samples from leaked data?
    What about corruption?

  5. If you don’t want a gun after that crime description something must be wrong with you.
    80% of gun crime is committed with illegal obtained firearms, restrictions never work.

  6. Im on my period right now. Who wants a sample of my dna?

  7. China has been buying DNA companies. They now have access to millions of western peoples DNA.. I wonder what kind of illnesses they will come with based on that information….

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