{"id":8949,"date":"2015-01-15T07:20:44","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T12:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/?p=8949"},"modified":"2015-01-15T07:20:44","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T12:20:44","slug":"dna-produces-facial-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/?p=8949","title":{"rendered":"DNA Produces Facial Images"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"snapshot-prediction-72DPI\"<\/a>I found this equal parts cool and creepy.\u00a0 Parabon NanoLabs<\/a> has developed a process called Snapshot that takes a DNA sample and extrapolates it into physical traits of the contributor.\u00a0 The traits include sex, genetic ancestry, skin color, hair color, eye color, freckling, and–gulp–facial morphology.\u00a0 A dab of blood or strand of hair can lead to a virtual mugshot of the person.\u00a0 Yikes.<\/p>\n

Parabon, based in Reston, VA, uses DNA phenotyping to read biomarkers and make predictions about physical appearance.\u00a0 This process involves DNA data mining and data modeling to compare the genetic variants of the unknown subject against known DNA patterns.<\/p>\n

With funding from the U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Parabon NanoLabs spent four years working to develop and validate their science for utilization in the defense, law enforcement, security, and intelligence industries. Parabon states that Snapshot is “extremely accurate.”<\/p>\n

For us, Snapshot is technology that can generate new investigative leads when no suspect DNA results are found in CODIS.\u00a0 It can also be used to help identify unknown remains in missing persons cases and cold case homicides.\u00a0 Snapshot can be employed in active crime scenes or skeletal finds.\u00a0 This could be a tremendous boon to law enforcement agencies.<\/p>\n

\u201cSnapshot leverages recent advances in DNA sequencing technologies,\u201d Ellen McRae Greytak, Ph.D., Parabon\u2019s Director of Bioinformatics, explains.\u00a0 \u201cIt takes advantage of modern SNP technology, along with so-called \u2018big data\u2019 high-performance computing techniques to translate genetic markers into a number of different phenotype predictions.\u00a0 It can also be used to identify distant familial relationships between two DNA samples, such as second or third cousins, which is significantly more powerful than traditional STR-based analysis.\u00a0 For investigators, when CODIS fails to find a DNA match, their cases often go cold.\u00a0 A Snapshot forensic profile, however, can generate new leads and help resolve those cases.\u201d<\/p>\n

That’s the cool.\u00a0 Back to the creepy.\u00a0 I won’t pretend to understand the high tech wizardry behind Snapshot.\u00a0 It is just hard to believe that a small piece of DNA can be read to the degree that it yields information specific enough from which to build a person’s face!\u00a0 This is like something out of a science fiction novel.<\/p>\n

Randall<\/p>\n

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I found this equal parts cool and creepy.\u00a0 Parabon NanoLabs has developed a process called Snapshot that takes a DNA sample and extrapolates it into physical traits of the contributor.\u00a0 The traits include sex, genetic ancestry, skin color, hair color, eye color, freckling, and–gulp–facial morphology.\u00a0 A dab of blood or strand of hair can lead to a virtual mugshot of the person.\u00a0 Yikes. Parabon, based in Reston, VA, uses DNA phenotyping to read biomarkers and make predictions about physical appearance.\u00a0 This process involves DNA data mining and data modeling to compare the genetic variants of the unknown subject against known DNA patterns. With funding from the U.S. Defense Threat Reduction … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[786,306],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-detectives","category-technology"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p28xkp-2kl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8949"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8962,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8949\/revisions\/8962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}