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DNA profiling is "a tool for exclusion," says George F. Sensabaugh, Jr., a professor of forensic science at the University of California at Berkeley. "If I am innocent and DNA evidence can prove it, I want testing done. [But], if I am guilty and DNA evidence will implicate me, I...
The technique, also known as DNA typing or fingerprinting, is based on the fact that although the majority of DNA is the same in all humans, certain unique patterns exist in every person, except identical twins. DNA profiling distinguishes among samples by using these differences like a regular fingerprint. Experts...
"RFLP methodology was first introduced and developed in England," says Paul B. Ferrara, director of the Virginia division of Forensic Sciences and chair of the American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors Accreditation Board. The test "gives rise to a virtual identification with a match at 5, 6, or 7 locations...
The National Research Council (NRC), an arm of the National Academy of Sciences, published a report in 1992 on "DNA Technology in Forensic Science." The report developed a technique of interpretation called the "ceiling principle."
Keith L. Monson and Bruce Budowle of the FBI's Forensic Science Research and Training Center agree that there is a lack of substructures in the four main racial groups. "For forensic purposes, profile frequency estimates from different reference populations do not deviate greatly," the researchers report in the Journal...