Let's make the DNA identification database as inclusive as possible.
Let's make the DNA identification database as inclusive as possible.
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让我们让 DNA 鉴定数据库尽可能具有包容性。
DOI：
10.1111/j.1748-720x.2006.00044.x
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2006
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Smith,MichaelE
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无论我们走到哪里，我们都会留下含有我们DNA分子副本的皮肤细胞——除非我们是密封的。这使得DNA鉴定数据库的构建和维护对犯罪调查人员非常有用。DNA数据库将个人DNA的一小部分的数字表示与他们的名字和其他识别信息联系起来，通过将犯罪现场发现的DNA与DNA识别数据库中的DNA档案相匹配，可以直接识别嫌疑人。它们也间接有用，因为刑事调查是通过排除过程进行的；识别在犯罪现场发现DNA的人可以使继续调查其他人变得没有必要。当犯罪现场的样本与“嫌疑人”的DNA不匹配时，这个人就可以免于刑事调查的麻烦和风险，包括被错误定罪的风险。
Wherever we go, we leave behind skin cells containing copies of our DNA molecule – unless we go forth hermetically sealed. This makes construction and maintenance of DNA identification databases enormously useful to crime investigators. DNA databases, linking numerical representations of a tiny portion of individuals' DNA with their names and other identifying information, are useful to identify suspects directly by matching DNA found at a crime scene with a DNA profile in a DNA identification database. They are useful indirectly too, because criminal investigations proceed by a process of elimination; and identifying the person whose DNA was found at a crime scene can make it unnecessary to continue investigating others. When the incriminating crime scene sample does not match the DNA of a “person of interest,” that person is freed from the hassles and risks of criminal investigation, including the risk of false conviction.