Family Ties: The Use of DNA Offender Databases to Catch Offenders' Kin

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Wiley InterScience

The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics

Volume 34 Issue 2, Pages 248 - 262

Published Online: 16 Jun 2006

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Family Ties: The Use of DNA Offender Databases to Catch Offenders' Kin

Henry T. Greely, J.D. ¹ , Daniel P. Riordan ² , Nanibaa' A. Garrison ³ , and Joanna L. Mountain, Ph.D. ⁴

¹ Deane F. and Kate Edelman Johnson Professor of Law, and a professor, by courtesy, of genetics, at Stanford University, where he directs the Center for Law and the Biosciences and the Program on Stem Cells in Society . ² Doctoral candidate in the Department of Genetics at the Stanford University School of Medicine . ³ Doctoral candidate in the Department of Genetics at the Stanford University School of Medicine . ⁴ Assistant Professor in the Departments of Anthropological Sciences and Genetics at Stanford University, where she investigates the origins and implications of human genetic variation.

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The authors examine the scientific possibility and the legal and ethical implications of using DNA forensic technology, through partial matches to DNA from crime scenes, to turn into suspects the relatives of people whose DNA profiles are in forensic databases.

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