FAMILY DNA PROFILING: THE GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING
With Christmas approaching, many people may be considering giving as a gift a DNA ancestry kit for family DNA profiling. These are interesting ways of undertaking research into your family history and finding out the background of where your ancestors might have come from. This is often used in association with various websites, where the results of the DNA testing can be uploaded to help trace other family members and complete missing links in the family tree. Crime Scenes & Fake Profiles However, this is not the only development in DNA science. In April of 2018 police in the United States managed to make an arrest in relation to a series of murders that were committed in California during the 1970s and 1980s. The Police in California used a sample from one of the crime scenes and using a fake profile uploaded the DNA result to an open-access genealogy website. This led them to the lead they needed. Familial DNA profiling This process requires the use of comp...