Book contents
- Understanding DNA Ancestry
- Series page
- Understanding DNA Ancestry
- Copyright page
- Reviews
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Business of DNA Ancestry
- 3 What Our Genomes Tell Us about the Geographical Origins and Movements of Early Human Populations
- 4 The Science behind DNA Ancestry Testing
- 5 Ancestry Informative Markers
- 6 Ancestry DNA Population Reference Panels
- 7 Comparing a Donor’s DNA to Reference Panel Populations
- 8 Probing Your DNA
- 9 Forensic Applications of Ancestry DNA Results
- 10 Privacy, Personal Identity, and Legal Issues
- 11 Discovering Unknown, Missing, or Mistaken Relatives
- 12 Accuracy, Consistency, and Validation of DNA Ancestry Tests
- 13 Conclusion
- Summary of Common Misunderstandings
- References
- Index
- Other books authored, coauthored, or coedited by Sheldon Krimsky
9 - Forensic Applications of Ancestry DNA Results
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2022
Book contents
- Understanding DNA Ancestry
- Series page
- Understanding DNA Ancestry
- Copyright page
- Reviews
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Business of DNA Ancestry
- 3 What Our Genomes Tell Us about the Geographical Origins and Movements of Early Human Populations
- 4 The Science behind DNA Ancestry Testing
- 5 Ancestry Informative Markers
- 6 Ancestry DNA Population Reference Panels
- 7 Comparing a Donor’s DNA to Reference Panel Populations
- 8 Probing Your DNA
- 9 Forensic Applications of Ancestry DNA Results
- 10 Privacy, Personal Identity, and Legal Issues
- 11 Discovering Unknown, Missing, or Mistaken Relatives
- 12 Accuracy, Consistency, and Validation of DNA Ancestry Tests
- 13 Conclusion
- Summary of Common Misunderstandings
- References
- Index
- Other books authored, coauthored, or coedited by Sheldon Krimsky
Summary
The criminal justice system began using DNA to solve crimes in the 1980s, after a geneticist from the University of Leicester in the UK developed a method for sequencing certain segments of chromosomal DNA. Those segments, called short tandem repeats (STRs), were expressed differently in different people, in contrast to the 99.9 percent of our DNA that is the same, and thus could be used to establish an indicator of personal identity (see Chapter 1).
Keywords
ancestryancestry informative markers (AIMs)ancient populationsautosomal DNADNA paternityDNA probesDNA testDNA variantsdirect-to-consumer testingforensic DNAF-statisticsgenealogygenetic identitygenetic markersgenetic privacygenetic testingGolden State KillerGrim Sleepermicroarraysmitochondrial DNANative Americanphenotypingracial DNAsingle nucleotide polymorphismsY chromosomal DNA
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- Understanding DNA Ancestry , pp. 79 - 87Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021