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DNA false positives

2015-03-09 17:09:58.044728+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

New Orleans filmmaker cleared in cold-case murder; false positive highlights limitations of familial DNA searching.

The elder Usry, who lives outside Jackson, Mississippi, said his DNA entered the equation through a project, sponsored years ago by the Mormon church, in which members gave DNA samples to the Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation, a nonprofit whose forensic assets have been acquired by Ancestry.com, the world’s largest for-profit genealogy company.

Careful who you give those DNA samples to, the false accusations they lead to could be your kin.

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