Finding criminals through DNA of their relatives

Science

Volumn 312, Issue 5778, 2006, Pages 1315-1316

  Bieber, Frederick R ^a   Brenner, Charles H ^b,c   Lazer, David ^d  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b DNA VIEW   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; SECURITY SYSTEMS; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEMS; CRIMINALS; DNA DATABASES;

DNA;

CIVIL RIGHTS; DNA FINGERPRINTING;

CRIME; DATA BASE; DISASTER; DNA DETERMINATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; KIN SELECTION; LAW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELATIVE; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; ARTICLE; ETHICS; FAMILY; FEMALE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; GENETIC DATABASE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; MEDICAL GENETICS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; UNITED STATES;

DNA;

CRIME; DATABASES, GENETIC; DNA; FAMILY; FEMALE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; GENETICS, MEDICAL; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33744790632     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1122655     Document Type: Review

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31. We gratefully acknowledge the American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics, through NIH grant 1RO1 HG2836-01, and the NSF (grant 0131923 to D.L.) for partial support. We thank E. Smith for research assistance.