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this site is for information and a record of Gerry McCann's Blog
Archives. As most people will appreciate GM deleted all past blogs
from the official website. Hopefully this Archive will be helpful to
anyone who is interested in Justice for Madeleine Beth McCann. Many
Thanks, Pamalam |
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The pivotal role of DNA fingerprinting in the Madeleine McCann investigation
was brought further into question yesterday when the inventor of the forensic
technique warned that it was insufficient to provide police with a firm
conclusion.
Sir Alec Jeffreys, the scientist who discovered that fragments of genetic
material could be used to identify individuals beyond statistical doubt, said he
was willing to appear as an expert witness on behalf of Kate and Gerry McCann.
The geneticist and DNA expert would be a powerful advocate for the couple, not
least because of his view on the ways that profiling should be used. He has
spoken out against the use of a police-controlled, partial DNA databank, calling
instead for a database with the DNA of every individual but controlled by an
independent agency.
Sir Alec, 57, said the incomplete DNA fingerprint taken from the McCann's hire
car, which is understood to be an 88 per cent match for Madeleine, could not be
considered as categorically coming from the missing four-year-old.
He told BBC's Newsnight programme: "There are no genetic characters in
Madeleine that are not found in at least one other member of the family. So then
you have an incomplete DNA profile that could raise a potential problem in
assigning a profile to Madeleine given that all other members of that family
would have been in that car."
The scientist has described the discovery of DNA fingerprinting as "quite
accidental".
Sir Alec was working at Leicester University in 1984 researching inherited
illnesses by looking for DNA markers within family members. He realised from one
experiment using small sections of DNA that the repeated patterns, unique to
each individual, could be applied to a wide range of areas. The chances of two
people having the same 20-number sequence are one billion to one. |
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