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Isn't that quite similar to help solving cold cases as example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_James_DeAngelo

On April 24, 2018, authorities charged 72-year-old DeAngelo with eight counts of first-degree murder, based upon DNA evidence; investigators had identified members of DeAngelo's family through forensic genetic genealogy.



You don't have to reconstruct the genome in order to prove relationships or find a person.




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