What is DNA Phenotyping?

Have you know that now criminals can be found even if their genetic profiles are not in the databases? Scientists have accumulated enough data to use DNA to determine a person’s ethnic origin, the color of his skin, hair, eyes, the width and length of his nose, as well as lips.. In these photographs you see generated images based on DNA and the real faces of the people to whom they belong. This technology is called DNA phenotipiis still very new and imagine what heights it can reach in a few years. Journalists from the New York Times magazine decided to conduct a study - they provided the DNA of two of their colleagues, faces were generated - the first person was identified by most of the fellow journalists as colleague Andrew Ross Sorkin, but this was not correct, in fact it was their colleague John Markoff - perhaps it’s because of the glasses - without glasses, people’s faces are perceived completely differently. The majority correctly identified the second person; they were given 10 photographs of colleagues to choose from, half of them of Asian appearance. As you can see, this technology can greatly help in the investigation of crimes or in the search for unidentified persons..