Does an English appeal court ruling increase the risks of miscarriages of justice when complex DNA profiles are searched against the national DNA database?

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Likelihood ratio (LR) methods to interpret multi-contributor, low template, complex DNA mixtures are becoming standard practice. The next major development will be to introduce search engines based on the new methods to interrogate very large national DNA databases, such as those held by China, the USA and the UK. Here we describe a rapid method that was used to assign a LR to each individual member of database...

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