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YES!!! A million times yes! The way "DNA matches" occur in the judicial system is by looking at a set of SNPs, not whole genome comparisons (obviously). This
by DrAwdeOccarim 8y ago
YES!!! A million times yes!
The way "DNA matches" occur in the judicial system is by looking at a set of SNPs, not whole genome comparisons (obviously).
This is how you frame someone.
1) Take the SNP set the cops use, which is published.
2) Make synthetic oligos that match the SNP set with SNPs from the person you want to frame.
3) Sprinkle the oligo collection at the crime scene
4) Guess what shows up in the PCR
- mnw21cam 8y agos/SNP/STR/, and you're right. They're easy to manufacture.
- DrAwdeOccarim 8y agoLooks like they only look at 20 STRs typically. Also mtDNA and Y-chrom STRs. Maybe a little more challenging to where you would need to grow up some plasmids to toss around a crime scene, but nothing a first year grad student couldn't do in their garage for a few thousand bucks. Wouldn't even need to clean up the minipreps since it's PCR and you'll find exactly what you're looking for and nothing else :)