FamiLinx. General FamiLinx is a scientific resource of curated genealogical, demographic, and basic phenotypic data from tens of millions of people mostly from the last 500 years. Different from traditional studies, this resource is the product of an ultra crowd-sourcing approach and is based on the collaborative work of genealogy enthusiasts around the world who documented and shared their family stories.
The starting point of FamiLinx was the public information on Geni.com, a genealogy-driven social network that is operated by MyHeritage. Geni.com allows genealogists to enter their family trees into the website and to create profiles of family members with basic demographic information such as sex, birth date, marital status, and location. The genealogists decide whether they want the profiles in their trees to be public or private. With permission from MyHeritage, we only downloaded the public profiles of individuals from Geni.com for future scientific studies.
Examples The Database Scripts. Genome hacker uncovers largest-ever family tree. Andrew Bret Wallis/Getty Images Using data pulled from online genealogy sites, a renowned ‘genome hacker’ has constructed what is likely the biggest family trees ever assembled. The researcher and his team now plan to use the data — including a single uber-pedigree comprising 13 million individuals, which stretches back to the fifteenth century — to analyse the inheritance of complex genetic traits, such as longevity and fertility.
In addition to providing the invitation list to what would be the world’s largest family reunion, the work presented by computational biologist Yaniv Erlich at the American Society of Human Genetics annual meeting in Boston could provide a new tool for understanding the extent to which genes contribute to certain traits. The pedigrees have been made available to other researchers, but Erlich and his team at the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, have stripped the names from the data to protect privacy. The American Society of Human Genetics.
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