Yaniv Erlich, a geneticist at Columbia University,
was far from surprised at last week's news that police may have found a serial murderer and rapist, California's long - sought Golden State Killer, by tapping a public
DNA database to match crime scene
DNA: Erlich had cautioned in a June 2014 article about genetic privacy, published in Nature Reviews Genetics, that GEDmatch, the
website that
was reportedly
used, could allow for such «genealogical triangulation.»
The UK's leading flat and house share
website, SpareRoom,
is trialling the
use of Housemate
DNA - Personality testing to help flatshare - hunters find their perfect houseshare, based on their personality profiles.