So relative unknowns such as Leandro Erlich, Trenton Doyle Hancock and Brian Fridge are also among the Texas representatives.

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Dr. Erlich said the technique works best for people who have the highest participation in genetic genealogy services, upper- and middle-class Caucasian Americans.

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Tommy Robredo and Feliciano Lopez beat Jonathan Erlich and Andy Ram 7-6 6-7 6-4 6-2 to put Cup holders Spain 3-0 up against Israel in the best-of-five tie.

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Dr. Green, who co-wrote a perspective piece that accompanied Thursday's paper, said steps already have been taken to make it more difficult for others to duplicate the results of Dr. Erlich's team.

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In a different study released earlier this year, researcher Yaniv Erlich at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was also able to re-identify almost 50 people participating in a different genomic study.

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Reporter Reese Erlich has been listening, too.

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For NPR News, I'm Reese Erlich.

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Leandro Erlich's "Stuck Elevator" (2011) is more complex: A freestanding box, about the size of an elevator shaft, it reveals, through an open door, the elevator's lifting mechanism and, through a gap at the bottom, the interior of the cabin, with a newspaper on the floor.

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