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DNA fingerprinting

[‚dē‚en′ā ′fiŋ·gər‚print·iŋ]
(genetics)
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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DNA fingerprinting, performed on the DNA removed from a disfigured cadaver or from human remains, may provide the evidence needed to change the presumption of death to the certainty of death, since "currently the chance of error in a properly administered DNA test is greater than 10 billion to one" (JACHTER 2007).
The centre is using the world's latest technology of advanced DNA fingerprinting, By Neetu Chandra Sharma in New Delhi Authorities are taking necessary steps to fight Ebola.
DNA fingerprinting, for example, has made it definitive that Joseph Mengele, the Nazi doctor known as the "Angel of Death," was buried in Brazil; that the entire Romanov family, killed in 1917, including Anastasia, was discovered buried in the woods outside Ekaterineburg, Russia; and that a Jefferson male, although not necessarily Thomas, fathered children by his slave, Sally Hemings.
This process expands on a recently described method that permits automated target cell detection and virtual enrichment, microdissection, and identification of the genomic origin of haploidentical single cells by means of DNA fingerprinting (10).
I conclude this portion of the presentation with a discussion of applications of DNA fingerprinting, including its use in (1) criminal trials to either link an individual to a crime scene or to exonerate an innocent person, (2) paternity testing, (3) identification of unknown individuals (an example that resonates with students is the identification of victims from the 2001 World Trade Center attack), and (4) its use in medicine to identify genetic conditions that can be inherited in families.
They had become used to forensic detection proving to be the key factors in obtaining a conviction, but DNA fingerprinting? If that worked, their job would be so much easier.
DNA fingerprinting undertaken by the State Laboratory Institute showed that the bacteria causing the infections came from a common source.
The Salm-gene project a European collaboration for DNA fingerprinting for food-related salmonellosis.
The challenge it set was to create software that could integrate both types of DNA fingerprinting techniques, with other more traditional forensic information.
Difficult scientific areas, such as statistics and probability, genetics and the role of DNA fingerprinting, toxicology, and chemical instrumentation, certainly challenge the students.
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