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Re:Woman sues after DNA from rape kit used to arrest her by jjcon on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @06:51PM (#32831183)
> 19 years old and in turn cites a paper that reported “genotyping whole-genome-amplified DNA” from up to 25 year old blood spots

You are notably omitting that those specific samples were kept at -20° C. I don’t know any country that does that for their Guthrie samples.

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Re:Woman sues after DNA from rape kit used to arrest her by sammax on Saturday September 17, 2022 @06:39PM (#32882294)
I did actually miss that. But my point is that none of the papers established a limit at 10 years and it’s not clear at all how the authors came up with that number.
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