Kaye, D. H. 1947-

The double helix and the law of evidence / David H. Kaye. - London : Harvard University Press, 2010. - xvi, 330 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-318) and index.

Before DNA : genetic markers -- Trial by mathematics -- The dawn of DNA typing -- The emergence of VNTR profiling -- The intensifying debate over probability and population genetics -- The initial reaction to the 1992 NRC report -- Ending the debate over population genetics -- Moving back to errors and relatives -- Moving on to short tandem repeat loci -- Transcending race and unscrambling mixed stains -- Outside the nucleus : mitochondrial DNA -- Stray hairs -- Learning from DNA.

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DNA fingerprinting--Law and legislation--United States.
Forensic genetics.

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