This New Advancement in Interpreting DNA Evidence Could be a Game Changer

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Route Fifty on 2/24/2021 by Bruce Budowle

COMMENTARY | Probabilistic genotyping software has helped forensic labs close more cases and exonerate individuals wrongly accused of a crime.

The development and implementation of forensic DNA typing more than 30 years ago has been a boon to law enforcement, the judicial system and society. The unprecedented expansion of biological evidence that now can be analyzed has led to more arrests, convictions, exonerations and re-openings of cold cases. This success, though, has created an increased demand and additional focus on processing more challenging samples to assist investigations.