"Once we get the sequence -- what we called the DNA profiles from the African-American that is being tested -- we compare that profile to profiles in the database, " Kittles explained.
Additionally, white profile owners appear to gravitate towards Facebook and LinkedIn, while minority profile owners tend towards profiles on MySpace.
The Almanac offers a complete guide to the electoral map of Britain, with profiles of every constituency and a biographical profile of every member of parliament.
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Ms. Persing found her famous relatives by merging her Geni profile with more-developed profiles and then scanning down to her alleged 25th great-grandfather on her father's side.
Introduced in late February the plugin lets users comment on various sites using their Facebook profile, nixing the need to create new profiles on every site.
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"It is important we understand what control shoppers have over their profile and whether firms are using shoppers' profiles to charge different prices for goods or services, " he said.
Nearly tw0 in ten (19%) set their profiles so that friends of friends or networks can view their profile.
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The first Argo floats were deployed in late 1999, and by November 2012, Argo had collected its millionth profile of temperature and salinity, twice the number obtained by research vessels during all of the 20th century. 120, 000 new profiles are collected every year, at the impressive rate of 1 profile approximately every 4 minutes.
LinkedIn is rolling out a redesign of its profile pages for its 175 million members so that they can create more customized profiles and connect with others in their network easier.
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BB10 also provides users with personal and work profiles, and has the ability to run apps from both simultaneously while keeping the data from each profile separate.
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Mr Whittaker said he found limited DNA profiles on a number of objects in the house but in Ms Dries-Jenkins' car he found a full profile which matched the defendant on the car keys.
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While deploying profiles is common at the enterprise level, encouraging users to click a link in an email to download a new profile for their phone may be educating users to perform risky behaviors.
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