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Encoded evidence: DNA in forensic analysis.

Nature reviews. Genetics - 1 Oct 2004

Jobling Mark A, Gill Peter

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Sherlock Holmes said "it has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important", but never imagined that such a little thing, the DNA molecule, could become perhaps the most powerful single tool in the multifaceted fight against crime. Twenty years after the development of DNA fingerprinting, forensic DNA analysis is key to the conviction or exoneration of suspects and the...

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PMID: 15510165
DOI: 10.1038/nrg1455

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