Open AccessBlue skies and CSIs: The unexpected discovery of DNA fingerprinting
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
the biochemist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1740-1194
pISSN - 0954-982X
DOI - 10.1042/bio03106007
Subject(s) - dna profiling , genealogy , geography , history , art history , biology , genetics , dna
Some 25 years ago, on 10 September 1984, Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys had an ‘eureka’ moment. He realized that the extremely variable patterns in the structure of DNA he was studying from his technician and her family represented not only common familial patterns but could distinguish one individual in that family from another.
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