On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Ken Brown wrote:
I think the point is that as they will have sequence data as well as family history they can use them to validate each other.
As a matter of fact, marker data is quite enough for that sort of application. Besides, the related pattern matching problem is surely a lot easier than the ones encountered in shotgun sequencing, which seem to be well managed nowadays. Once sequence data is available, I'm quite sure it is possible to reconstruct the genome of past generations of Icelanders upto considerable accuracy - random mutations in the timespan considered are negligible and more overlapping information (multiple children by a single parent) is available in the older generations. Perhaps Gattaca wasn't so far off base, after all... Sampo Syreeni <decoy@iki.fi>, aka decoy, student/math/Helsinki university