224 Forensic Laboratory Management: Applying Business Principles
e microsatellites we use in forensics are part of a small portion of our
genome known as Simple Sequence Repeats, which represent approximately
3% of the human genome. We are interested in tandem, simple sequence
repeats, meaning they occur in clusters and are connected together in a head-
to-tail orientation.
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If we are going to identify people, and do so by nding dierences between
people, we will have to look at those parts of the DNA that dier from one
person to another. And those areas are called polymorphic DNA, as opposed
to monomorphic. 99.9% of our genome is the same among all people. If we
took just a random sequence of DNA and compared that sequence from on ...