Forensic Test Predicts Eye and Hair Color From DNA 73
An anonymous reader writes "A forensic test that has been developed to help police nab perpetrators of crimes can predict a suspect's eye color, hair color, and ethnic origin. The test's ability and the science behind it has been outlined in Forensic Science International: Genetics (abstract). Developed by Susan Walsh and other researchers from the Netherlands, Greece, and Poland, the test uses phenotypes from DNA to ... predict a suspect's appearance using 'low amounts of template DNA, as well as degraded DNA,' which means that the DNA does not need to be perfect in order for the system to read it."
Re:We swear your honor... (Score:4, Insightful)
You'll be hard pressed to find a single peer reviewed study that shows finger prints to be a valid means of identification
challenge accepted
http://lpr.oxfordjournals.org/content/7/2/87.short [oxfordjournals.org]
Re:A good excuse for police ethnic profiling (Score:2, Insightful)
In other words, they now have another good reason to do something that they already had a good reason to do in the first place.