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Conversation with Àlex Pifarré. Part 3

Àlex Pifarré, officer at the National Institute of the Toxicology and Forensics of the Ministry of Justice in Barcelona.

Àlex Pifarré, officer at the National Institute of Toxicology and Forensics of the Ministry of Justice in Barcelona.

The use of DNA in forensics is a subject that spans several disciplines: genetics, because it concerns various regions of the genome; statistical genetics, which are used to calculate the probability of a given hypothesis; and law, as the evidence obtained from the DNA is presented in court.

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