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...recent Crime Bill takes heed of many of the NRC recommendations in the "DNA Identification Act of 1994." The Crime Bill authorizes grants (part of a $20 million package through facial year 2000) to public laboratories that apply and meet quality standards for forensic testing...
Another effect of the Crime Bill will be the establishment of a DNA index of the records of persons convicted of crimes, analyses of samples from crime scenes and from unidentified human remains. Currently, a national DNA identification index, the Combined Identification Index System (CODIS), is being developed by the FBI with participation from 10 states...
...Sensabaugh cautions that a DNA database of all individuals might not be a wise idea. He worries that the database could be used for new forms of genetic discrimination. "I don't want one, and you probably don't either," Sensabaugh says...
...DNA profiling is the technique used to determine predispositions for cancer, Down's Syndrome and a variety of other diseases. But Bloom doesn't foresee this type of a database in the near future...
...loci of medical interest are where the DNA should be the same between everyone, only changing with disease," Bloom says. "Police are looking for the ones that change like mad, the parts that are known as 'junk DNA' by most scientists. The other part of the answer is that it's not cost effective to do millions of tests...