Anthropology 2235A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Combined Dna Index System, Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism
11 Jun 2012
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Lecture 16 legislation and the dna wars. With the power of dna for individuation it was decided that new controls and legislation was in order to deal with potential problems. With labs using rflps and some strs the problem of conformity emerged and these were addressed by the national research council and the. Technical working group on dna analysis and methods. Initially attempts were made to develop rflp databases but quickly strs were replacing rflps. In 1995 the fss in the uk developed first forensic database. In 1998 fbi launches codis (cobined dna index system, linking all forensic labs. In 2000 in canada the national dna databank was launched, connected to all labs in canada and to codis: these databanks are used to determine random match probabilities and to link convicted offenders to crime scenes. Dna standards: t(s)wgdam (technical (scientific) working group on dna. Analysis methods) guidelines": now swgdam, laboratory accreditation.
