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Geneticists pan paper that claims to predict a person's face from their DNA

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Re: Geneticists pan paper that claims to predict a person's face from their DNA

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Yeah, but they also grew in same uterine environment.

They also probably grow up together, have similar diets, speak the same language... there are lots of correlated environmental factors with twins aside from their DNA. A better comparison would be separated twins (widely separated). But I'm not sure if anyone has looked at the relative differences between twins raised together vs apart.

> A better comparison would be separated twins (widely separated).

The two people in The Parent Trap are twins and were widely separated, yet they still looked identical, so much so that their parents could not even tell them apart.

Re: Geneticists pan paper that claims to predict a person's face from their DNA

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Anonymous participants in genome research have been re-identified in the past [0]. In one of these examples, people were re-identified merely using zip code, date of birth and gender. Everyone should assume that they can be identified once they have revealed even a few personal datapoints. The genome contains millions of datapoints.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamtanner/2013/04/25/harvard-p...

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