This is a great read! It chronicles the evolution of DNA testing, since the early 2000s up through 2019 while at the same time tell the story of a woman named Alice, who discovers a non-parental event. The author's theme is that we are experiencing a upheaval in our understanding of family because of the power of DNA to reveal the truth of genetic inheritance. I found the reporting accurate and explained very well in layman terms. Highly recommended read for those wanting to understand DNA and its possibilities and risks.
Quotes and Comments
"The way we handle adoption in this country still is archaic says Amy Winn, president of the America Adoption Congress, which advocates for unrestricted access to original birth certificates..."
book - Who We Are and How We Got There - David Reich
book - She Has Her Mother's Laugh - Carl Zimmer
"A 2014 study in the journal Nature Communications found that all modern-day Ashkenazi Jews are likely descended from what researchers describe as a population bottleneck in the late medieval times. The population was very small, perhaps as few as 350 people, but more likely somewhere in the thousands. Somethings like ten million Ashkenazi Jews descend from this tiny group which lived, according to several studies, around twenty to thirty generations ago. "
[Psychological effects] Krista Driver, CEO of Mariposa Women & Family Center in Orange County, CA..has started couseling groups for those who've experienced NPEs (non-parental expected)"
"Jodi Klugman-Rabb has been offering a treatment for what she terms Parental Identity Discovery. ..."Brianne Kirkpatrick, found of Watershed DNA, genetic counselor in Charlottesville, Virginia, providing counseling for NPEs.
"Inside the Cell: The Drk Side of Forensic DNA by Erin Murphy
"...GEDmatch's roughly one million people was vastly more helpful to investigators than the thirteen million DNA profiles then in CODIS."
"Paul Ohm [Georgetown Law professor] ..we are all at the mercy of the massive troves of data that businesses collect and keep on us. Ohm called this eventual, interconnected treasure trove of information the 'database of ruin', and he urged in a 201 Harvard Business Review article, please don't build this....DNA could become "a database of ruin".
Published: 2020 Read: May 2020 Genre: Science
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