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hlthe2b

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Mon May-02-11 10:23 PM
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7. They had already created some of the PCR primers necessary...

Edited on Mon May-02-11 10:25 PM by hlthe2b

anticipating this would be needed some day. His sister had died of a brain tumor some time ago and they had her DNA from her brain from which they could extract mitochondrial DNA to compare. That is why it was so "quick."

This is important to understand. That is not the case generally, at all. Int he case of a rape kit, they have to sequence from scratch, so that they can compare to what may be multiple possible suspect's DNA, each of which have to be sequenced as well. It takes quite a while

Here we discussed it here with a nice summary from one of our Molecular Biologists.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1013081

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