14 Sep
2006
14 Sep
'06
5:06 a.m.
On Wednesday 13 September 2006 07:56 pm, Harish S wrote:
On 9/12/06, jtd jtd@mtnl.net.in wrote:
However big problem when one or both parents happen to be unknown / donors and when gene therapy might substantially modify the original dna.
DNA fingerprinting is done based on the unique repeats in the micro-satelite region of the DNA, and AFAIK(with my four years of biotechnology..)
Great we have an expert right here and he prefers to keep quite for so long ;-) keep it coming maan.
gene therapy never touches a person's micro-satelite region..so DNA finger printing is still foolproof !! :) But in cases were there are identical twins..the genetic profile is same..so u need more data!!
Looks like we have a speaker for the coming meet ?
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Rgds
JTD