The HBS Way

DNA Phenotyping & Racial Discrimination

Liam Izaddoust
SocGen 2022S

How exactly do police officers catch a criminal with a single strand of hair?

Investigative Genetic Genealogy, a New and Contested Method for Catching Criminals

Lexie Baughman, Sareen Manuel, Eunice Nguyen, Krishna Shah, and Ethan Yi
SocGen 2022S

Sending off your saliva to a direct-to-consumer genetic testing company may be more incriminating than you think.

Society Through DNA: The Search for Answers in Our Genes

Luis Torres
SocGen 20Other21

While our humanity leaves us with endless questions, genetics may only be giving us some of the answers.