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The double helix and the law of evidence /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kaye, D. H. (David H.), 1947-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2010.
Subjects:
DNA Fingerprinting > legislation & jurisprudence.
Forensic Genetics.
United States.
DNA fingerprinting > Law and legislation > United States.
Forensic genetics.
Table of Contents:
  • Before DNA : genetic markers
  • Trial by mathematics
  • The dawn of DNA typing
  • The emergence of VNTR profiling
  • The intensifying debate over probability and population genetics
  • The initial reaction to the 1992 NRC report
  • Ending the debate over population genetics
  • Moving back to errors and relatives
  • Moving on to short tandem repeat loci
  • Transcending race and unscrambling mixed stains
  • Outside the nucleus : mitochondrial DNA
  • Stray hairs
  • Learning from DNA.