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Originally published in Science Express on 11 May 2006
Science 2 June 2006:
Vol. 312. no. 5778, pp. 1315 - 1316
DOI: 10.1126/science.1122655
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Policy Forum

HUMAN GENETICS:
Finding Criminals Through DNA of Their Relatives

Frederick R. Bieber1, 4, * Charles H. Brenner2, 4 David Lazer3, 4

Analyses of the DNA databases maintained by criminal justice systems might enable criminals to be caught by recognizing their kin, but this raises civil liberties issues.

1Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA. 2DNAVIEW, Oakland, CA 94611, and School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. 3John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. 4Authors are alphabetized to reflect equal contributions. Comments and ideas expressed herein are their own.

*Author for correspondence. E-mail: fbieber{at}partners.org

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