Sentence examples for genealogy databases from inspiring English sources

He got the Y chromosome's short tandem repeats and then went to genealogy databases and searched for men with those same repeats.

And our family ties to each other are becoming increasingly transparent in the era of mail-in DNA-testing services like 23andMe that purport to provide detailed data on shared bloodlines, and online genealogy databases that compile family super-trees that include millions of people from around the globe.

As genealogy databases and other resources improve, how can individuals be protected, and what are the implications?

As an aside, MyHeritage also has a robust (and free) genealogy metasearch engine that taps into 1200 genealogy databases around the world.

Using a computer algorithm, the researchers correlated information from the subject's Y chromosome with other genealogy databases, and matched it to their last names.

This was recently shown in a study (Gymrek et al. 2013) in which researchers could successfully recover surnames of five de-identified participants of the 1000 Genomes project p by profiling short tandem repeats on the Y chromosome and by querying recreational genetic genealogy databases.

In the 90s, there was a huge public outcry about Iceland's national genealogy database – a plan eventually quashed by the supreme court for violating the constitution.

Curious about our family's history, my siblings want to send samples of their DNA to a company that is building a genealogy database.

DeCode has used the money to assemble a genealogy database of 600,000 Icelanders dating back to the year 900.

But more than 140,000 volunteers agreed to allow the company to combine their medical and DNA information with Iceland's genealogy database.

As more details emerge about the arrest of the man suspected to be the Golden State Killer, it's clear that one of the most infamous unsolved cases of all time was cracked using a popular free online genealogy database.