NCJ Number
128036
Date Published
1990
Length
175 pages
Annotation
This report presents the proceedings of a 1989 symposium that focused on techniques for the identification of evidence through the analysis of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) as well as issues affecting the legal admissibility of DNA typing evidence.
Abstract
Individual papers focused on the detection of highly polymorphic DNA sequences in human DNA, comparisons in white and black populations, paternity testing, and Bayesian analysis of single-locus DNA profiles. Other papers considered data for forensic matching criteria for a variable number of tandem repeat profiles and the forensic analysis of restriction fragment length polymorphism. Further papers discussed legal concerns for data acquisition and statistical analysis for DNA typing laboratories and a defense attorney's perspective on DNA typing. Figures, tables, and address from which to obtain an additional paper