Still, Joachim Jacob noted that German law requires a suspicion of an offense before genetic fingerprinting can be carried out.
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In the early days of genetic fingerprinting, the necessary population data to accurately compute a match probability was sometimes unavailable.
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According to Phil Cleary, this allows " millions of chemical signatures " and is an identifier superior to genetic fingerprinting DNA.
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Meanwhile, police are using a blend of old-style investigative work and state-of-the-art genetic fingerprinting to solve the thousands of missing-person cases.
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The United States Fish and Wildlife Service then adopted its own method of genetic fingerprinting of caviar and began banning shipments.
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So genetic fingerprinting may merely tell patients how quickly they can expect to die, without allowing doctors to do anything about it.
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Within six months, genetic fingerprinting had been used in an immigration case, to prove that a young Ghanaian boy really was his parents'son.
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But until a few years ago, when genetic fingerprinting moved from the courtroom to animal science, the extent of the hanky-panky was unknown.
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The same technique of genetic fingerprinting was used to unravel the source of the anthrax that killed five in the United States in 2001.
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Even if DNA tests yield solid leads, they said, genetic fingerprinting of microbes is too new _ and error-prone _ for confidence in court.
