Earlier post: Key Questions on Nationality Testing.
Look here for the original story, key questions on nationality testing, Border Agency documents and expanded reactions.
Alec Jeffreys, University of Leicester: Nationality is not genetic, and by the UK Border Agency's logic, huge numbers of people in the US and UK would fail a DNA-based nationality test (there is no defined US ethnic population unless you use indigenous North Americans in which case virtually everyone fails, and much the same is true for the UK).
To test for selection bias, age, sex, nationality, test result and newly reached participant were compared between participants with and without questionnaire using Chi square test.
Having appeared to announce a suspension of the nationality DNA test – known by the Hitlerian title "the Human Provenance Pilot"– it now says that the project will go ahead but that the result will not be used to determine someone's fate.
Nationality and test result were not associated.
Logistic regression analysis was performed: being a newly reached participant was used as the outcome to assess the association with the determinants age, sex, nationality and test result.
In contrast, there was no association between T. gondii IgM status and age or nationality, but positive tests were associated with seropositivity to HSV-1 IgG and HSV-2 IgM antibodies.
Nonetheless before the team announcement this week, the Lions were pictured surfing on their two-day break in Noosa, Queensland, and visiting a zoo in groups of mixed nationalities, and Test and non-Test players.
"The investigators will be looking to see what information they can extract to identify the terrorists and their nationalities, including DNA tests," a senior official from the National Disaster Operation Centre told Reuters, after officials described the attack as a "multinational" operation.
