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Agassiz Professor of Zoology Richard C. Lewontin '50-'51 and Professor of Biology Daniel L. Hartl object to the forensic use of DNA finger-printing, or profiling. They contend that the accuracy claimed by current statistical techniques is overstated...
...Lewontin and Hartl have fueled controversy over the statistics, not the techniques, of DNA profiling. "The foundation of the molecular biology is well laid," says James F. Crow, professor emeritus of genetics at the University of Wisconsin. "The difficulties are matters of the interpretation" of the profiles...
...Lewontin and Hartl say in their 1991 paper that the use of racially-biassed reference databases to calculate frequencies "is liable to potentially serious errors because ethnic subgroups within major racial categories exhibit genetic differences...
Professor of Biology Daniel L. Hartl is onescientist who has problems with the use of DNAtyping as evidence. In an influential 1991 articlein Science which he co-wrote with AgassizProfessor of Zoology Richard C. Lewontin '50,Hartl argues that DNA typing currently has twomajor flaws...
Agassiz Professor of Zoology Richard C. Lewontin spends his spare time fighting fires as president of the volunteer fire company in Marlboro...