DNA of relative indicts man, cuckolding ignored
Slashdot pointed to this story of a man indicted via his *relative's* DNA sample: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/3044282.stm But an interesting, unmentioned issue is this: in population DNA surveys you find that a lot of purported fathers *aren't*. So the possibility of indicting a cuckolded man on the basis of nominal (only) relatives is quite real. [list rel: tech DBs, errors, law, biosurveillance]
Major Variola (ret.) wrote:
Slashdot pointed to this story of a man indicted via his *relative's* DNA sample:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/3044282.stm
But an interesting, unmentioned issue is this: in population DNA surveys you find that a lot of purported fathers *aren't*. So the possibility of indicting a cuckolded man on the basis of nominal (only) relatives is quite real.
Only he was convicted because he confessed. -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html http://www.thebunker.net/ "There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit." - Robert Woodruff
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Major Variola (ret.)