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pcernie

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Forensic test can predict hair and eye colour from DNA

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19369028

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, so long as it's not seen/used as foolproof.

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Tue Aug 28, 2012 5:25 pm

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Re: Forensic test can predict hair and eye colour from DNA

If you can't catch them with an exact DNA match, what use will knowing eye colour be? Either there were witnesses who could tell you that or there weren't an it doesn't matter as noboday saw them.

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Tue Aug 28, 2012 9:57 pm

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Re: Forensic test can predict hair and eye colour from DNA

I couldn't tell you the eye colour of anyone I work with - people I see daily - let alone someone who's committing a crime. I'd have other things on my mind.
I suppose it narrows the field of investigation?

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Tue Aug 28, 2012 10:03 pm

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Re: Forensic test can predict hair and eye colour from DNA

What about people who use contacts to change eye colour and dye their hair???

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Tue Aug 28, 2012 11:22 pm

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Re: Forensic test can predict hair and eye colour from DNA

I don't think the test can predict that.

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