DNAprint Genomics (DNAG)

[frogdreaming]

mingwan0,

First let me say it is a pleasure to converse with you as you seem to be devoid of the rancor that seems to permeate this arena whenever uncomfortable topics arise.

I appreciate your prediction that DNAP will be able to predict hair color from an anonymous sample and I respect your reasoning. You state;

"...It is not clear how many of the additional factors are genetic in basis.."

It is my contention that some of those factors are specifically 'not' genetic in basis. Age, for example is not. Given such unknown factors it will be very difficult to arrive at acceptable levels of accuracy.

It is obvious that this is as close as we will get to agreement and we must therefore agree to disagree.

Thank you also for uncovering the information from 2002 that mentions the Popular Science article. It confirms my previous post that suggested that this was dated material that was perhaps no longer pertinent. As the Retinome project has dropped of the radar screen and the company has made no effort to promote the article it would seem that they are lying low on this topic.

Previous mentions in the media have elicited PR's from the company touting the upcoming reports. Since there has been no confirmation from the company it would seem that they are allowing some distance between them and the information in the article.

We will see if there is any follow up this week. If there is none we might prepare ourselves for the possibility that the predictions for eye color by the end of the year might not still be viable.

regards,
frog