Landmark cases whose defining forensic significance is DNA profiling or genetic genealogy: the first criminal conviction by DNA fingerprinting, which in the same investigation produced the first DNA-based exoneration of a wrongly suspected man; a decades-cold case solved in 2018 through investigative genetic genealogy against public DNA databases; and a case matched by DNA to evidence held for years before the technology existed to test it. Belongs here: a case whose historical importance rests specifically on genetic identification. Does not belong here: a case identified through fingerprint or another non-genetic biometric method, grouped under Fingerprint and Biometric Identification.
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1. DNA Profiling (Wikipedia)
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British geneticist Sir Alec Jeffreys independently developed a process for DNA profiling in 1984 while working in the Department of Genetics at the University of Leicester.
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