4 Comments Welcome to my DNA blog!

1. Amjad

   November 3rd, 2007 at 3:16 am

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   Dear Sir,

   My question is if some one is away from his wife for Atleast 1 Year and he go back to his home after 1 year and if he wants to know that his wife did’nt had an external affair or relationship with someone else, can he know this by doing DNA test or how can he know this.

   Thanks

   Amjad

2. Meagan

   November 15th, 2007 at 11:39 am

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   Dear Amjad,

   There is only one way in which a person could perform a DNA test to see if his wife was unfaithful and that would be if you have a viable DNA sample to test, or “evidence”.

   If you suspect that your wife was unfaithful because you found “evidence” in the form of a gentleman’s item, such as an electric razor toothbrush or undergarment or hair, etc., then it would be possible to screen that item to find out if there is DNA on, or in, it that can be tested. If there is a positive hit on an evidence sample you give us, then we could run a profile on that sample against a profile sample from you in the form of a cheek swab. This is called Forensic Infidelity Test.

   If you do not have any type of evidence to test, then I am sorry to tell you that unless your wife is pregnant and you have a paternity test, without “evidence” there is really no way to see if your wife has been unfaithful.

3. Julie

   June 29th, 2010 at 10:13 pm

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   Dear Meagan-
   When did the Calif. DNA bank begin? would a criminal convicted in 1988/89 and done with sentence by 1994 be included in the data bank? thank you. Julie

4. Meagan

   July 6th, 2010 at 4:15 pm

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   Hello Julie,

   When was the CAL-DNA Bank established? The first hit by the CAL-DNA Data Bank was made in 1994 and involved the brutal rape and murder of a 76-year-old Richmond woman.

   Between 1994 and 1999, eight hits were made. Since then, the number of old cases solved has steadily increased as more DNA profiles of convicted felons and forensic DNA profiles developed from crime scene evidence are uploaded into their respective databases. Currently, the CAL-DNA Data Bank contains 274,000 convicted felon profiles and 9,300 forensic profiles. At the end of September during this period, the CAL-DNA Data Bank had obtained 1,068 hits linking DNA crime scene evidence to specific felon offenders, and aided in 1,286 criminal investigations by linking DNA crime scene evidence to other criminal cases. One recorded achievement was when the CAL-DNA Data Bank made 110 hits that aided in 115 criminal investigations in one month, many dating back more than 20 years.

   Currently, the CAL-DNA Data Bank houses samples from criminals and missing people. Samples are collected through a ‘cheek swab’. The CAL-DNA Data Bank contains 274,000 profiles for felons and 9,300 forensic profiles. A total of 2,692 hits have been made and the total is growing.

   New people are added to the system and are never deleted. In other words, convicted or not, once a person’s DNA is in the system it remains there. In addition, under state law, individuals convicted of 36 serious and violent felonies are required to submit biological samples that yield DNA profiles that are also stored in the CAL-DNA Data Bank.

   I hope this answers your question.

   Regards,
   Meagan

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