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Wired News | July 22, 2008

For all the case-solved moments it provides on television crime dramas, DNA is far from a perfect forensic tool. Samples can degrade over time, confounding analysis. The handful of gene markers used by crime labs to identify individuals aren't quite so unique as expected. The latter phenomenon is th...

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