NIST guides genetic genealogy labs toward improved accuracy
Wednesday, December 24, 2008 - 09:08
in Psychology & Sociology
Anyone who has watched crime dramas on TV knows that forensic scientists can use DNA 'profiling' to identify people from evidence gathered at a crime scene, establish a paternity link or help free an innocent person who has been wrongly jailed. A lesser known but rapidly growing application of DNA profiling is tracing a person's paternal ancestry - a process known as genetic genealogy...