Forensic Biology & DNA · Free course
DNA Profiling: The Basics
A beginner's guide to forensic DNA profiling: where DNA evidence comes from and its limits, how labs produce an STR profile, how to read a profile and its match statistics without falling into the prosecutor's fallacy, mixtures, Y-STR and mtDNA, and the legal position on DNA in India.
About 45 min · 9 questions
What you’ll cover
- What DNA profiling is and what it can tell you
- A short history: Leicester 1984 to Hyderabad
- Where DNA evidence comes from, and its limits
- In the laboratory: from sample to profile
- Reading a profile and understanding match statistics
- Mixtures, contamination, and special DNA tests
- Databases, the law in India, and next steps
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