TY - JOUR T1 - Democratizing DNA Fingerprinting JF - bioRxiv DO - 10.1101/061556 SP - 061556 AU - Sophie Zaaijer AU - Assaf Gordon AU - Robert Piccone AU - Daniel Speyer AU - Yaniv Erlich Y1 - 2016/01/01 UR - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/06/30/061556.abstract N2 - We report a rapid, inexpensive, and portable strategy to re-identify human DNA using the MinION, a miniature sequencing sensor by Oxford Nanopore Technologies. Our strategy requires only 10-30 minutes of MinION sequencing, works with low input DNA, and enables familial searches. We also show that it can re-identify individuals from Direct-to-Consumer genomic datasets that are publicly available. We discuss potential forensic applications as well as the legal and ethical implications of a democratized DNA fingerprinting strategy available to the public. ER -