Forensic genetic genealogy is a budding science, transforming trendy, direct-to-consumer DNA ancestry tests into crime fighting tools. It garnered attention...
With forensic genetic genealogy, investigators can build a larger family tree of a suspect’s second, third or potentially even fourth cousins.
Michael Coble, executive director, Center for Human Identification at University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth , shows DNA test kits to Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, during a news conference at UNT Health Science Center, Friday, Oct. 13, 2023, in Fort Worth. Cornyn discussed Friday his new legislation, the Carla Walker Act, which would create federal funding to support the use of the FGG DNA analysis and aid in resolving previously unsolvable cold cases.
Forensic genetic genealogy is a budding science, transforming trendy DNA ancestry tests into crime fighting tools. It garnered attention with the capture of the elusive Golden State Killer and has been credited with helping in hundreds of cases.Forensic genetic genealogy analyzes tens of thousands to millions of DNA markers, according to Michael Coble, executive director of Center for Human Identification at the University of North Texas’ Health Science Center.
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