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The AGCT murders: putting epigenetics on the stand

Author(s) -

David Ballard,

Anastasia Aliferi

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

the biochemist

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.126

H-Index - 7

eISSN - 1740-1194

pISSN - 0954-982X

DOI - 10.1042/bio03905024

Subject(s) - suspect , context (archaeology) , crime scene , matching (statistics) , epigenetics , simple (philosophy) , computer science , task (project management) , criminology , psychology , computer security , biology , genetics , epistemology , medicine , philosophy , economics , gene , management , paleontology , pathology

Criminal investigations can rely heavily on DNA evidence and, while matching a DNA profile with that of a suspect or a previous offender might sound like a simple task, real life cases are often much more complicated. What happens when more context is required than a simple profile match, or when there is no match at all? Can DNA give us more information than we have suspected? Is epigenetics the elementary answer to our questions, my dear Watson?

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