Let's get to the heart of what this is: a crude pseudoscience.<p>While DNA call tell you a few obvious traits, like sex and ancestry with high confidence, almost everything else is speculative (i.e. they are LIKELY to have such and such other traits, but in reality they may not have any of those traits at all).<p>This is 21st century phrenology.
For those interested in this subject, check out the work of Heather Dewey-Hagborg:<p><a href="http://deweyhagborg.com/" rel="nofollow">http://deweyhagborg.com/</a><p><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/creepy-or-cool-portraits-derived-from-the-dna-in-hair-and-gum-found-in-public-places-50266864/" rel="nofollow">https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/creepy-or-cool...</a>
It looks like this is based algorithmically on genetic ancestry. I'd like to see a deep learning model trained from facial image and genetic data to build a tool for generating faces from genes. Anyone know if something like this is feasible? Is it possible to extract only genetic data that has an impact on facial appearance? Or is this something that we still don't know much about?
Maybe somebody is already using deep learning to train DNA with faces. Not sure how the architecture would look like but I think some form of unsupervised learning to find features mixed with GAN.