Forensic Test Predicts Eye and Hair Color From DNA

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday August 28, 2012 @08:30AM from the accurate-to-some-amount-of-decimal-places dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A forensic test that has been developed to help police nab perpetrators of crimes can predict a suspect's eye color, hair color, and ethnic origin. The test's ability and the science behind it has been outlined in Forensic Science International: Genetics (abstract). Developed by Susan Walsh and other researchers from the Netherlands, Greece, and Poland, the test uses phenotypes from DNA to ... predict a suspect's appearance using 'low amounts of template DNA, as well as degraded DNA,' which means that the DNA does not need to be perfect in order for the system to read it."

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We swear your honor... by wbr1 · 2012-08-28 08:33 · Score: 4, Funny

The DNA doesn't lie! Sure it was degraded and we had to amplify and replicate degraded copies.. but it said the rapist would have brown hair and blue eyes.. and look.. does the suspect not have brown hair and blue eyes?
Later, in the jury room... DNA is always right.. GUILTY!!!

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1. Re:We swear your honor... by willie3204 · 2012-08-28 08:39 · Score: 4, Interesting
  
  The OJ verdict disagrees with that line of thought
  
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