Yaniv Erlich: How we're building the world's largest family tree
Yaniv Erlich: La création du plus grand arbre généalogique au monde
Yaniv Erlich is fascinated by the connection between DNA and data. Full bio
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for various reasons.
pour plusieurs raisons.
popular categories of website
la plus populaire de site web,
typically consume in private.
les gens tendent à regarder en privé.
of self-indulgence
the reproductive activities
des activités reproductrices
that is obsessed with genealogy.
obsédé par la généalogie.
you want to sit next to
à côté de soi
with peculiar details
avec tous ces détails
d’oncle Bernie
for biomedical research.
pour la recherche biomédicale.
et ses amis généalogistes
and his fellow genealogists
a genealogy website called geni.com.
sur un site nommé geni.com
sont téléchargés,
their trees to the website,
and the new tree together.
ceux-ci sont fusionnés,
family trees are created,
of each genealogist.
de chaque généalogiste.
with millions of people
avec des millions de personnes
of a family tree of all humankind.
pour toute l’humanité.
125 millions de personnes
on the screens over here
sur ces écrans
of 6,000 individuals.
petit arbre avec 6 000 individus.
you see the ancestors.
les ancêtres.
you see the descendants.
generations, approximately.
sept générations.
when we increase the number of individuals
le nombre d’individus
of all the data that we have.
de nos données.
the formation of gigantic family trees
d’un arbre généalogique gigantesque
of our genealogists,
de nos généalogistes,
hundreds of years ago.
sur des centaines d’années.
US Secretary of the Treasury,
au Trésor des États-Unis.
due to a popular Broadway musical.
d’une comédie musicale de Broadway.
connections in the showbiz industry.
dans le showbiz.
of a lady from Scotland
d’une dame écossaise
of stories like that.
d’autres histoires.
to validate the quality of our data.
la qualité de ces données.
the mother-child connections in our data
que 0,3 % des relations mères-enfants
in the US pre-Second World War.
avant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.
connections in our data are wrong.
étaient incongrues.
avec un sourire en coin,
in patrilineal connections
la lignée patriarcale
a similar error rate
un taux similaire
de notre travail est bonne
a profound, vested interest
familiales est quelque chose
their family history.
quantitative information about humanity,
en apprendre plus sur l’humanité,
on the map of the world.
à travers le monde.
that lived at some point.
ayant vécu à un certain moment.
of many countries,
de plusieurs pays,
the map that I've showed you
la carte que je vous ai montrée,
from 1400 to 1900,
ayant vécu entre 1400 et 1900
to known migration events.
aux grandes migrations connues.
les plus anciennes dans nos données
that the deepest lineages in our data
the routes of Western colonialism.
les routes du colonialisme occidental.
arrive au Massachusetts]
l’Afrique du Sud]
la déportation pénale vers l’Australie]
transportation to Australia starts]
de la piste de l’Oregon]
are giving the context of families,
de migration donnent le contexte familial,
between the birth locations
entre les lieux de naissance
a pivotal role in demography,
en démographie,
people migrate to form families
dans le but de fonder une famille
in geographical areas.
répartis géographiquement.
avec nos données
in the village nearby.
tout simplement.
really complicated our love life.
qui a compliqué les amours.
and online social media,
abordables et les médias sociaux,
100 kilometers from their place of birth
de 100 km de leur lieu de naissance,
of migrating from places to places
la peine d’émigrer
pour le découvrir.
les dernières 300 années,
qui se donnent cette peine
to places to form families.
are statistically significant,
statistiquement parlant.
that males are lazy.
les hommes sont paresseux.
about demography
les questions démographiques
account for differences in life span
génétiques affectent la durée de vie
of longevity between twins
question, on analysait la corrélation
variations account for
génétiques affectaient
in life span between individuals.
de vie, à peu près.
par plusieurs choses
due to so many reasons,
to analyze both close relatives,
l’occasion d’analyser des parents proches
even fourth cousins.
des modèles solides
of genetic variations
la contribution génétique
avec nos données.
explain only 15 percent
n’expliquent que 15 %
between individuals.
entre les individus.
what we thought before to life span.
moins qu’on le pensait.
our actions can matter more.
nos actions sont plus importantes.
10 years of our life expectancy --
de notre durée de vie,
document and crowdsource DNA information.
rentrer et réunir les infos ADN.
but Uncle Bernie and his friends
mais l’oncle Bernie et ses amis
what the FBI currently has.
on a large family tree,
of distant relatives
de parents éloignés
that originated the DNA.
de laquelle provient l’ADN.
on a large family tree,
sur des grands arbres,
of an unknown person,
jusqu’alors inconnue,
uses multiple satellites
utilise plusieurs satellites
of the power of this technique
montrant la puissance de ceci
in the history of the US.
les plus connus aux États-Unis.
for this person for over 40 years.
pendant plus de 40 ans.
in any police database.
avec les données policières.
consulted a genetic genealogist,
a consulté un généalogiste génétique
his DNA to a genealogy service
à un service de recherche généalogique
of the Golden State Killer.
du tueur du Golden State.
un grand arbre généalogique,
branches de cet arbre,
branches of that tree,
that exactly matched
qui correspondait exactement
the Golden State Killer.
du tueur du Golden State.
and found a perfect match
et ont eu une correspondance parfaite
and brought him to justice
have started working with
génétiques travaillent
aux États-Unis,
in order to capture criminals.
over 20 cold cases with this technique.
20 cas classés sans suite.
Bernie and his fellow genealogists
oncle Bernie et ses amis généalogistes.
with a self-serving hobby.
avec un simple passe-temps.
with a deep passion to tell us who we are.
passionnés de nous conter qui nous sommes.
can hold a key to the future.
se forge dans le passé.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Yaniv Erlich - Computational geneticistYaniv Erlich is fascinated by the connection between DNA and data.
Why you should listen
As a professor and researcher at Columbia University and as CSO of MyHeritage.com, Yaniv Erlich has performed foundational work in genetic privacy and large-scale studies of crowdsourced genomic data. Dubbed a "genome hacker" by the journal Nature, Erlich and his team discovered a privacy loophole enabling reidentification of allegedly anonymous male research participants using just internet searches and their Y chromosome. Later, he discovered that 60 percent of all US individuals with European descent can be identified by forensic genetics using open genetic genealogy databases, which Science magazine called one of the top 10 breakthroughs of 2018.
Erlich is also responsible for the construction of the world's largest family tree, comprising 13 million people, as well as the development of the website DNA.land, which has compiled the genotypes of more than 150,000 donors. He has also worked to discover the genetic bases for several conditions in Israeli families. His team has demonstrated stable DNA data storage, reaching a density of 215 petabyte per gram of DNA. He's been awarded numerous prizes, has published more than 45 papers and authored seven patents.
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