http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2008/10/09/criminals-beware-your-name-might-be-in-your-dna/ Quirky, funny, and surprising science news from the edge of the known universe. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:19:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2008/10/09/criminals-beware-your-name-might-be-in-your-dna/#comment-15773 Max Blankfeld Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:56:23 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2008/10/09/criminals-beware-your-name-might-be-in-your-dna/#comment-15773 FamilyTreeDNA.com has been offering this Y-DNA test commercially for about 8 years now, and in the last 2 years, with their database being by far larger than the database that the above article suggests, they've shown about 30% success rate in determining the surname of an adopted male. Here is an article published by the BBC a few months ago about the subject: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7459578.stm FamilyTreeDNA.com has been offering this Y-DNA test commercially for about 8 years now, and in the last 2 years, with their database being by far larger than the database that the above article suggests, they’ve shown about 30% success rate in determining the surname of an adopted male. Here is an article published by the BBC a few months ago about the subject:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7459578.stm

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