Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Criminal in The family

Crime is said to run in the family, for example if your brother or someone in your family is in jail, then you might have a allele for crime. If they find a DNA sample from a crime seen, and if it the sample is not exactly similar, it could be a family member. If most of the alleles are matching but 3-5 out of the 26 alleles are not matching, should the state have the ability to search for the DNA of their family members. Some say this is a violation of private property. But cross searching DNA in a family could help solve cases, set falsely incriminated people free. So far this technology has been successful in the UK.  

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