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Published Online May 11, 2006
Science DOI: 10.1126/science.1122655

Submitted on November 15, 2005
Accepted on April 27, 2006

Finding Criminals Through DNA of Their Relatives

Frederick R. Bieber 1*, Charles H. Brenner 2, David Lazer 3

1 Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
2 DNA-VIEW, Oakland, CA 94611, and School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
3 John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
Frederick R. Bieber , E-mail: fbieber{at}partners.org

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


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