Main description:

* Provides self-Learning about DNA Fingerprinting

* Includes sections on how to analyze and interpret DNA fingerprinting

* Covers legal and medicolegal issues and case analyses

* Teaches novice legal community about DNA fingerprints

* Summarizes for a general audience the role of ancestry, DNA and what that means.

Contents:

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Introduction

CHAPTER 1: The Cell

CHAPTER 2: How do cells divide and why is it important to know the process?

CHAPTER 3: Structure of DNA and why we use DNA in Forensic Science.

CHAPTER 4: Capillary Gel Electrophoresis for analysis of DNA in Crime Labs

CHAPTER 5: Sex Determination by STR

CHAPTER 6: The Combined DNA Index System (CODIS)

CHAPTER 7: How STRs are analyzed in a Forensic Laboratory

CHAPTER 8: Complexities of Sex Determination

CHAPTER 9: Y-STR and Paternal Ancestry

CHAPTER 10: Mitochondrial STRs

CHAPTER 11: Forensic Serology

CHAPTER 12: How to extract DNA from a biological sample

CHAPTER 13: A guide to understanding the value of DNA results: A short discussion on Probability and Statistical Calculations.

CHAPTER 14: What are autosomal dominant, recessive, and X-linked dominant and recessive traits?