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The at-home DNA test craze is putting us all at risk
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[QUOTE="Laroxe, post: 6165886, member: 555853"] Just some notes about part of your post, which may be interesting. Most of the problems in using DNA evidence are not really about the test itself but the way in which samples are obtained, interpreted and used. In fact attempting to quantify the likely accuracy is now discouraged, remember O.J.'s lawyers ran rings around the DNA experts based on their estimates, even suggesting they were using them to mislead the court - and his arguments were generally sound. One particularly funny example of problems is [URL]http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1888126,00.html[/URL] There are lots of issues around the use of DNA evidence that cause problems, these are discussed in a A European collaboration produced a report that can be downloaded (free) [URL unfurl="true"]http://senseaboutscience.org/activities/making-sense-of-forensic-genetics/[/URL] There was an extensive review, published as a book called “The Evaluation of Forensic DNA Evidence.” which I believe is all available online. This links to one of the chapters [URL]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK232607/[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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