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Nature 418, 585-586 (8 August 2002) | doi:10.1038/418585a

DNA testing for all

Robert Williamson & Rony Duncan

  1. Robert Williamson and Rony Duncan are at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute, University of Melbourne, Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, 3052, Victoria, Australia.

Correspondence to: Correspondence should be addressed to Robert Williamson, e-mail: Email: williamb@cryptic.rch.unimelb.edu.au

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There are two fair possibilities for forensic DNA testing: everyone or no one.

DNA testing is the most important advance in forensics in our generation, and probably in the whole of human history. Whether convicting the guilty or acquitting the innocent, a DNA sample is the ultimate form of evidence.