{"id":56,"date":"2017-10-06T12:15:53","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T16:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jtmillar\/?p=56"},"modified":"2017-10-06T12:56:26","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T16:56:26","slug":"forensic-applications-of-dna-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jtmillar\/2017\/10\/06\/forensic-applications-of-dna-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Forensic Applications of DNA Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_62\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jtmillar\/files\/2017\/10\/IMG_3263-17-07-17-02-15.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62\" class=\"wp-image-62 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jtmillar\/files\/2017\/10\/IMG_3263-17-07-17-02-15-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jtmillar\/files\/2017\/10\/IMG_3263-17-07-17-02-15-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jtmillar\/files\/2017\/10\/IMG_3263-17-07-17-02-15-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jtmillar\/files\/2017\/10\/IMG_3263-17-07-17-02-15-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-62\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">HLA-A typing can be used to investigate the zygosity of twins.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The famous fictional detective Sherlock Holmes stated, &#8220;It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.&#8221; We are interested in how DNA is used to solve crimes and other mysteries. For example, how can you tell for sure whether a pair of twins is identical or fraternal? We recently looked into this question by using PCR to type at the HLA-A gene, which has about 1939 different alleles. We have also used DNA typing on dogs and horses!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The famous fictional detective Sherlock Holmes stated, &#8220;It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.&#8221; We are interested in how DNA is used to solve crimes and other mysteries. For example, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jtmillar\/2017\/10\/06\/forensic-applications-of-dna-analysis\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":185,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jtmillar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jtmillar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jtmillar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jtmillar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jtmillar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jtmillar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jtmillar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/66"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jtmillar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jtmillar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jtmillar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}