Execupundit.com (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
Last week, the Translational Genomics Research Institute in Phoenix said that a team of scientists led by David Craig had developed a method for identifying an individual using only a smidgen of their DNA, even if it is mixed with hundreds of other people's DNA. Read the rest of the Portfolio article .
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
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British Journal of Pharmacology (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
But David Craig of the Translational Genomics Research Institute in Phoenix, Arizona, and lead author of the PLoS study, told Nature that the restrictions were "a very strong reaction and a bit premature". To identify an individual from a large DNA mixture using his technique, their genome would already need to be known, which limits the risk of privacy violations or misuse. "There would...
New Scientist - Being Human (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
A new method of pinpointing someone's genetic profile in a mixture of DNA samples poses a small risk that their privacy might be compromised
