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Are DNA Tests as Accurate as We Thought?
Trumpeted for years as virtually infallible, DNA tests may not be as accurate as we thought.
Questions raised by an Arizona lab worker who stumbled across several close DNA matches that seemingly defied the odds of a match, as described in court, have led to more extensive efforts to test DNA databases for accuracy in a number of states, reports the Los Angeles Times reported in detail this week in a lengthy article about the issue.
Those efforts are opposed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation laboratory that administers the national DNA testing system. It contends that the accuracy checks--which involve searches for matches between all DNA profiles, rather than matches to one specific profile--are misleading… Continue reading...
