[Gllug] Biometrics?

[James Hawtin]

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 12:21:02PM +0000, John G Walker wrote:
> But the problem is that variations in DNA is not randomly spread around
> the population. It goes by families. This is why the reporting of "one
> in so many thousand" chance of a match is misleading. It would only be
> that chance if DNA varied randomly,

Its also means authorities do not need everyones DNA to have a near complete
map of the population, by using birth certificates they can extrapolate data
from family trees. 

James
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