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Author:

Kaye, D. H. (David H.), 1947-

Title:

The double helix and the law of evidence / David H. Kaye.

Publisher:

Harvard University Press,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

xvi, 330 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

DNA fingerprinting--Law and legislation--United States.
Forensic genetics.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-318) and index.

Contents:

Before DNA : genetic markers -- Trial by mathematics -- The dawn of DNA typing -- The emergence of VNTR profiling -- The intensifying debate over probability and population genetics -- The initial reaction to the 1992 NRC report -- Ending the debate over population genetics -- Moving back to errors and relatives -- Moving on to short tandem repeat loci -- Transcending race and unscrambling mixed stains -- Outside the nucleus : mitochondrial DNA -- Stray hairs -- Learning from DNA.

ISBN:

0674035887 (hbk.)
9780674035881 (hbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)318876881

LCCN:

2009023848

Locations:

N3AX771 -- Drake Law School Library (Des Moines)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (Iowa City)