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		DNA fingerprinting was invented by Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys of the University of Leicester.
		Jeffreys, taking DNA evidence proved that the crime was committed by the same man. The police than received a confession.
		Jeffreys fingerprint, compared to that of the parents confirmed it was the daughter.
	dragon.zoo.utoronto.ca /~inx522/Jeffreys.htm (689 words)

	Alec Jeffreys - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jeffrey's DNA technique was used in the first regional screen of human DNA to identify the rapist and killer of two girls in Narborough, Leicestershire in 1983 and 1986.
		Jeffreys has opposed the current use of his invention, where the government have access to that database, and has instead proposed a database of all people's DNA, whose access would be controlled by an independent third party.
		Jeffreys and his team are now studying the effects of chronic irradiation such as that which has followed the melt down of the nuclear reactor at Chernobyl.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alec_Jeffreys (502 words)

	EducationGuardian.co.uk \| eG weekly \| Alec Jeffreys: pennies from heaven
		Jeffreys began working on gene evolution at Leicester in the late 1970s, and by 1980 his research was focused on a minisatellite section of human DNA, which appeared to show more dramatic variations than other strands.
		Jeffreys was able to prove that not only was the woman the boy's birth mother, but that the other children shared the same father.
		After that the floodgates opened and Jeffreys' team was involved in countless cases, including the identification of the body of Josef Mengele and verifying the authenticity of Dolly, the cloned sheep.
	education.guardian.co.uk /egweekly/story/0,5500,1303418,00.html (1287 words)

	An Interview with Sir Alec Jeffreys
		When Jeffreys moved to the University of Leicester in 1977, he chose to change direction completely and study DNA variation and the evolution of gene families.
		Jeffreys, 45, gained a first-class degree in biochemistry from Oxford University in 1972, and his Ph.D., also from Oxford, in 1975.
		Jeffreys: The citations, I think, reflect the fact that at the time this was a novel, very powerful generalized technology that could be applied to a wide range of problems in human and nonhuman genetics.
	www.sciencewatch.com /interviews/sir_alec_jeffreys.htm (2674 words)

	The Lasker Foundation \| 2005 Clinical Medical Research
		Alec Jeffreys (at the University of Leicester) wanted to find DNA that might uniquely identify individuals—variations associated with normal differences as well as those that cause disease—and he seized on the Southern blot to aid his search.
		Jeffreys showed that members of a family can be distinguished—and that each offspring carries only bands from the parents—half from the mother and half from the father, except in the occasional case where a new mutation crops up.
		Jeffreys improved and adapted the technology so it would work on tiny amounts of forensic biological samples and lend itself to computer database manipulation, which facilitates DNA comparisons.
	www.laskerfoundation.org /awards/library/2005c_cit.shtml (1685 words)

	.: Corvallis Gazette-Times :. Archives
		Jeffreys is still awed, and a bit worried, by the power of the technology he unleashed upon the world.
		In the early 1990s, Jeffreys and his team were called in to identify remains buried in Brazil as those of the Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele.
		Jeffreys, who was knighted in 1994, welcomes DNA databases but has qualms about how the British one has been set up.
	www.gazettetimes.com /articles/2004/09/09/news/nation/thunat05.txt (650 words)

	Sir Alec Jeffreys FRS - DNA fingerprinting
		Sir Alec Jeffreys was made a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) for his distinguished work in genetics.
		Sir Alec was made a Fellow because of his research into the organisation and evolution of animal genes.
		Sir Alec Jeffreys was made a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1986.
	www.royalsoc.ac.uk /page.asp?id=1523 (559 words)

	HHMI News: Chernobyl's Grim Genetic Legacy
		Jeffreys is one of the Institute's 22 international research scholars in the United Kingdom.
		Jeffreys' team started its Chernobyl study in 1994 in collaboration with Russian researchers, including lead author Yuri Dubrova of the Institute of General Genetics in Moscow.
		For now, the most Jeffreys and his colleagues can conclude is that the mutations seen in the human study will likely be passed along to future generations because they are germline in origin.
	www.hhmi.org /news/jeffreys.html (797 words)

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	Legally Scientific? (The Birth of Forensic DNA) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Alec Jeffreys and the birth of forensic DNA
		In 1985, Leicester University geneticist Dr Alec Jeffreys was approached by West Midlands police who wanted to confirm the rape confession of a 17 year old boy and to try to link him to a second, related offence.
		Jeffreys' work to date had focussed on refining DNA paternity testing techniques, which had already provided evidence in several UK palimony cases and at least one immigration case whereby a Ghanian boy was able to prove familial relationship with a UK citizen.
	home.iprimus.com.au /dna_info/dna/JA_DNA_LegSci_2.html (499 words)

	Professor Sir Alec J. Jeffreys: Department of Genetics: University of Leicester
		Crossover clustering and rapid decay of linkage disequilibrium in the Xp/Yp pseudoautosomal gene SHOX.
		Jeffreys, A.J., Neil, D.L. and Neumann, R. A novel unstable mouse VNTR family expanded from SINE B1 elements.
		Jeffreys, A.J., Allen, M.J., Hagelberg, E. and Sonnberg, A. Forensic Sci.
	www.le.ac.uk /ge/ajj (1086 words)

	KNAW > The Heineken Prizes > Laureates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In the mid-1980s, Alec Jeffreys discovered sequences within strands of DNA that differ from one individual to the next and form a personal code as unique as our fingerprints.
		Alec Jeffreys was born in Oxford, United Kingdom, in 1950.
		Jeffreys is a Fellow of the Royal Society and is a Royal Society Wolfson Research Professor.
	www.knaw.nl /cfdata/heineken/laureates_detail.cfm?winnaar__id=53 (486 words)

	Science Show - 21/9/2002: Genetic Fingerprinting
		Sir Alec Jeffreys: Well, we’d be interested for quite a long time, really since the late 1970s in trying to understand how DNA various from one person to another.
		But never mind the scale of the problem, the seriousness is that, you know, particularly the egg collectors are targeting species, and almost perversely, their interest in targeting the species increases in proportion to its rarity.
		Sir Alec Jeffreys: Yes, I’ve been here for 25 years now and DNA fingerprinting came along, gosh what was it, about seven years after I first arrived here and I’ve been enjoying every moment before and after the discovery of DNA fingerprinting.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/science/ss/stories/s679061.htm (1175 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Jeffreys
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		Moseley, Henry Gwyn Jeffreys MOSELEY, HENRY GWYN JEFFREYS [Moseley, Henry Gwyn Jeffreys], 1887-1915, English physicist, grad.
		'No-man' Jeffreys seeks 2nd term: His opponent says she is more moderate than the Wake board's frequently dissenting member.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Jeffreys (610 words)

	Invent Now \| Hall of Fame \| Search \| Inventor Profile
		Alec Jeffreys invented genetic fingerprinting, a powerful technology that provided new insights for genetic researchers, and resolved life-or-death questions for law enforcement.
		Jeffreys discovered a process that detects extremely variable DNA regions, proving that each human has its own genetic fingerprint.
		Born in Oxford, England in 1950, Jeffreys studied at Merton College in Oxford.
	www.invent.org /hall_of_fame/235.html (193 words)

	Genelex: The Paternity DNA Testing Site
		Jeffreys proved that even small fragments of DNA molecules were virtually unique to individuals.
		Jeffreys' new form of genetic typing and the law were linked from the beginning.
		Jeffreys confirmed that the same person committed both crimes but it was not the suspect the police held.
	www.genelex.com /paternitytesting/paternitybook1.html (3865 words)

	Inventor Warns Over Abuse Of DNA Data
		Jeffreys said new developments in the field have alarming implications for civil liberties, and could allow police to compile files containing highly personal data about a person's racial origins, medical history and psychological profile.
		To prevent future abuses, Jeffreys, a genetics professor at Leicester University, wants Britain to set up a global DNA fingerprint database in which every citizen's DNA profile would be stored under strict controls.
		Jeffreys first created genetic fingerprints on 10 September 1984 when he discovered a stretch of DNA that is repeated in ways unique to every individual (except identical twins).
	www.rense.com /general56/inventorwarnsoverabuse.htm (592 words)

	FLJ - Les lauréat 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Alec J. JEFFREYS is the Royal Society Wolfson Research Professor in the Department of Genetics at the University of Leicester.
		Alec J. JEFFREYS is studying when, where and by which mechanisms such variations are generated.
		With the Louis-Jeantet Prize for medicine, Alec J. JEFFREYS wants to study further the mechanisms that underlie human meiotic DNA recombination as well as other forms of mutagenesis that contribute to the diversity and evolution of the human genome.
	www.jeantet.ch /jeffreysanc.htm (269 words)

	1998 Australia Prize
		To understand how Sir Alec and his team at the University of Leicester came up with DNA fingerprinting, and subsequent enhancements of the technology, one must go back to the late 1970s when they began a search for regions in human DNA that were variable between people.
		By afternoon on September 15, Sir Alec and his team were pricking their fingers, smearing blood on tissues and bits of glass to see if they could produce DNA fingerprints from this “evidence”.
		Sir Alec says he’s glad DNA fingerprinting was used in an immigration dispute and not a criminal case first up, as the technology’s limitations for forensic analysis soon became apparent.
	www.ucl.ac.uk /~ucbhjow/b241/jeffreys.html (2054 words)

	Profile of Sir Alec Jeffreys « MicrobiologyBytes (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		As one of the great contributors to modern genetics, Sir Alec Jeffreys was born with curiosity in his genes as the son and grandson of prolific inventors.
		Jeffreys displayed an insatiable quest for knowledge, and his father fostered his son’s budding scientific interests with gifts of a microscope and chemistry set, the latter of which produced one of Jeffreys’ most memorable scientific ventures.
		Jeffreys’ scientific curiosity only increased after the apple tree incident, and years later it would lead to one of the most widely used applications in genetics: DNA fingerprinting.
	microbiologybytes.wordpress.com.cob-web.org:8888 /2006/10/03/profile-of-sir-alec-jeffreys (357 words)

	DNA database "should include every citizen" - 12 September 2002 - New Scientist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Jeffreys says a complete national database should be controlled by an independent body and be limited to storing DNA information that only permits an identification - it should not carry DNA data that could be used to infer appearance, or susceptibility to disease.
		As a further safeguard, he thinks the police should be forced to go to court to obtain the address of a criminal suspect identified using the database: "The police should be able to prove that a sample from a crime scene matched a DNA profile on the database before being supplied with their identity."
		Jeffreys revolutionised forensic and legal medicine by accidentally inventing DNA fingerprinting in 1984.
	www.newscientist.com /article.ns?id=dn2792 (426 words)

	DNA fingerprinting sparks fresh worries - Genetic Genealogy - MSNBC.com
		Jeffreys, the scientist who discovered genetic "fingerprinting" two decades ago, says he has some concerns about the use of the technology.
		Jeffreys, a professor of genetics at the University of Leicester in central England, said he and his colleagues made the discovery by accident while tracking genetic variations.
		While Jeffreys’ original technique compared scores of markers to create an individual “fingerprint,” modern commercial DNA profiling compares a number of genetic markers — often 5 or 10 — to calculate a likelihood that the sample belongs to a given individual
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/5944270 (831 words)

	- Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys Delivers Rutherford Memorial Lecture in Singapore
		Sir Alec will describe how DNA typing can be used to solve casework and will review the latest developments, including the creation of major national DNA databases that are already proving extraordinarily effective in the fight against crime.
		Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys FRS is the Royal Society Wolfson Research Professor at the University of Leicester.
		Sir Alec is best known for his development of genetic fingerprinting in 1984 and his subsequent demonstration that it could provide a completely new and very powerful approach to biological identification.
	www2.le.ac.uk /ebulletin/news/2000-2009/2005/11/nparticle-6yv-g95-ggd (521 words)

	USATODAY.com - 'Fingerprinting' pioneer has concerns about uses of DNA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The ability to identify patterns within DNA that are unique to each individual — except identical twins, who share the same pattern — has been used to convict murderers and clear the wrongly accused, to identify the victims of war, and settle paternity disputes.
		Jeffreys, a professor of genetics at the University of Leicester, welcomes DNA databases but has qualms about how the British one has been set up.
		Jeffreys estimates the probability of two individuals' DNA profiles matching in the most commonly used tests at between one in a billion or one in a trillion, "which sounds very good indeed until you start thinking about large DNA databases."
	www.usatoday.com /tech/science/genetics/2004-09-08-dna-concerns_x.htm (547 words)

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	Visible Proofs: Forensic Views of the Body: Galleries: Cases: Alec Jeffreys and the Pitchfork murder case: the origins ...
		Visible Proofs: Forensic Views of the Body: Galleries: Cases: Alec Jeffreys and the Pitchfork murder case: the origins of DNA profiling
		Alec Jeffreys and the Pitchfork murder case: the origins of DNA profiling
		British geneticist Alec Jeffreys began working in 1977 on a technique that could identify individuals through samples of their DNA.
	www.nlm.nih.gov /visibleproofs/galleries/cases/jeffreys_image_2.html (184 words)

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