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To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (4197)	3/23/2002 4:27:44 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

" I suspect that you would always be able to tell a contaminated sample from an actual match. So if the cops are honest, they would know they really didn't have a match and would either let the perp go or rely on other evidence." Actually, in thinking about that later, with current analytical methods, that's not necessarily true. If entire chromosomes were being matched, it would be, but that's not what's being done. The chromosomes are broken into much smaller pieces and then the type and amount of the diffeent pieces are matched. That opens the possibly of contamination causing a spurious match. All that I have said here is public knowledge but please note that I can't say anymore due to confidentiality about the neuron projects. I take you're involved with this?