DNA of relative indicts man, cuckolding ignored

Major Variola (ret.) mv at cdc.gov
Sat Jul 5 23:51:34 PDT 2003


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]





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