Kayte Spector-Bagdady

Yeah, that's a great point, because one of the other things that makes genetic data so unique is that not only does it completely uniquely identify you as a person and it cannot be changed, but it also identifies your blood relatives. And this is sometimes a challenge with families in the clinic that I work sometimes in the hospital at the University of Michigan.

Yeah, that's a great point, because one of the other things that makes genetic data so unique is that not only does it completely uniquely identify you as a person and it cannot be changed, but it also identifies your blood relatives. And this is sometimes a challenge with families in the clinic that I work sometimes in the hospital at the University of Michigan.

That family's face is that one face. member of the family would like to be tested for an invasive genetic disease that might not have a treatment and the other family members don't want to know. So this is a tension that happens both at the clinic and in databases because that's exactly how they re-identified the Golden State Killer was actually by identifying his relatives.

That family's face is that one face. member of the family would like to be tested for an invasive genetic disease that might not have a treatment and the other family members don't want to know. So this is a tension that happens both at the clinic and in databases because that's exactly how they re-identified the Golden State Killer was actually by identifying his relatives.

He never did ancestry testing himself, but because people are inherently linked by blood, it can reveal information about each other.

He never did ancestry testing himself, but because people are inherently linked by blood, it can reveal information about each other.