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Colorado in 2010 began requiring DNA testing of all felons and for a small list of criminal misdemeanors, a move that began providing matches to unsolved sexual assaults, robberies, burglaries and other crimes within months.

Now, Rep. Dan Pabon, D-Denver, is proposing the state go further by requiring DNA testing for all criminal misdemeanor convictions. We strongly support this idea and believe it could help catch rapists, burglars and even murderers going forward.

We especially support the idea now that House Bill 1251 has been considerably narrowed from its original version, which would have required DNA testing for all misdemeanor convictions, including a long list of minor violations hardly predictive of additional criminal behavior.

First, consider the results that have occurred since Colorado began requiring DNA testing for felony arrests and for six misdemeanor offenses. According to the Denver District Attorney's office, from December 2010 to March 2013, just in Denver, there were 187 DNA hits on samples taken upon arrest, and of those, 29 have been matched to sexual assaults and four to murders.

One of those cases included the March 21 charging of Eddie Simon on suspicion of kidnapping and raping a 20-year-old woman in 2001. Simon had been arrested earlier this year on felony drug charges and his DNA was taken at that time, leading to the potential break in the cold case.

But it's clear that expanding the DNA testing to serious misdemeanors will catch dangerous criminals as well. In New York, which in 2006 expanded the testing to certain misdemeanors such as shoplifting, assault and trespassing, DNA samples of people convicted of petty larceny were linked to some 48 murders and 220 sexual assaults, according to the Manhattan District Attorney's office.

Some critics of Pabon's bill say it would create an indiscriminate dragnet that would invade the privacy of many people convicted of extremely low-level offenses. Yet we think Pabon has largely addressed this concern by first limiting the bill only to Class 1 misdemeanors and then further winnowing that list to only certain Class 1 misdemeanors.

This list includes more serious offenses such as third-degree assault, various sexual assault offenses, forgery, indecent exposure, wiretapping, possession of an illegal weapon and various other crimes that could indicate future criminal behavior.

No doubt, some critics will point to certain other offenses included on this narrowed list, such as videotaping a movie inside a theater, and say they shouldn't necessitate a DNA sample. But we think these cases will be relatively rare, and the far greater number of more serious offenses justifies taking the DNA.

The bill should be passed into law.

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DNA samples will help solve crimes

Washington, April 16 (ANI): UC San Francisco scientists have revealed that specific DNA once dismissed as junk plays an important role in brain development and might be involved in several devastating neurological diseases.

Their discovery in mice is likely to further fuel a recent scramble by researchers to identify roles for long-neglected bits of DNA within the genomes of mice and humans alike.

While researchers have been busy exploring the roles of proteins encoded by the genes identified in various genome projects, most DNA is not in genes. This so-called junk DNA has largely been pushed aside and neglected in the wake of genomic gene discoveries, the UCSF scientists said.

In their own research, the UCSF team studies molecules called long noncoding RNA (lncRNA, often pronounced as "link" RNA), which are made from DNA templates in the same way as RNA from genes.

"The function of these mysterious RNA molecules in the brain is only beginning to be discovered," said Daniel Lim, MD, PhD, assistant professor of neurological surgery, a member of the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCSF, and the senior author of the study.

Alexander Ramos, a student enrolled in the MD/PhD program at UCSF and first author of the study, conducted extensive computational analysis to establish guilt by association, linking lncRNAs within cells to the activation of genes.

Ramos looked specifically at patterns associated with particular developmental pathways or with the progression of certain diseases. He found an association between a set of 88 long noncoding RNAs and Huntington's disease, a deadly neurodegenerative disorder. He also found weaker associations between specific groups of long noncoding RNAs and Alzheimer's disease, convulsive seizures, major depressive disorder and various cancers.

Unlike messenger RNA, which is transcribed from the DNA in genes and guides the production of proteins, lncRNA molecules do not carry the blueprints for proteins. Because of this fact, they were long thought to not influence a cell's fate or actions.

Nonetheless, lncRNAs also are transcribed from DNA in the same way as messenger RNA, and they, too, consist of unique sequences of nucleic acid building blocks.

Evidence indicates that lncRNAs can tether structural proteins to the DNA-containing chromosomes, and in so doing indirectly affect gene activation and cellular physiology without altering the genetic code. In other words, within the cell, lncRNA molecules act "epigenetically" - beyond genes - not through changes in DNA.

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Junk DNA may be behind devastating neurological diseases

* Horse DNA found in 1 in 8 beef products tested in France

* Results show 4.6 pct of tests positive across the EU

* Britain finds illegal drug residues in horsemeat

* EU experts say levels seen unlikely to pose health risk

By Charlie Dunmore

BRUSSELS, April 16 (Reuters) - France found more cases of illegal horsemeat in beef products than any other European Union country, results of official DNA tests ordered in the wake of the scandal showed, with more than 1 in every 8 samples testing positive.

Announcing the results on Tuesday, the European Commission said that for the EU as a whole, just less than 5 percent of all beef products tested had come back positive for horse DNA.

But the figures showed that of 353 tests carried out in France, 47 tested positive for horse DNA, giving a rate of more than 13 percent.

"In terms of image it's not good. It risks delaying our attempt to regain consumer confidence to get out of the crisis, because it is not over yet," Jean-Rene Buisson, chairman of the French food industry group ANIA, told Reuters.

Buisson said it would be important to know how much horsemeat was detected in each positive sample, as tiny traces could be the result of accidental contamination at processing plants rather than deliberate substitution. The Commission did not provide that information.

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UPDATE 3-France tops EU DNA tests for horsemeat in beef

Apr. 15, 2013 Specific DNA once dismissed as junk plays an important role in brain development and might be involved in several devastating neurological diseases, UC San Francisco scientists have found.

Their discovery in mice is likely to further fuel a recent scramble by researchers to identify roles for long-neglected bits of DNA within the genomes of mice and humans alike.

While researchers have been busy exploring the roles of proteins encoded by the genes identified in various genome projects, most DNA is not in genes. This so-called junk DNA has largely been pushed aside and neglected in the wake of genomic gene discoveries, the UCSF scientists said.

In their own research, the UCSF team studies molecules called long noncoding RNA (lncRNA, often pronounced as "link" RNA), which are made from DNA templates in the same way as RNA from genes.

"The function of these mysterious RNA molecules in the brain is only beginning to be discovered," said Daniel Lim, assistant professor of neurological surgery, a member of the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCSF, and the senior author of the study, published online April 11 in the journal Cell Stem Cell.

Alexander Ramos, a student enrolled in the MD/PhD program at UCSF and first author of the study, conducted extensive computational analysis to establish guilt by association, linking lncRNAs within cells to the activation of genes.

Ramos looked specifically at patterns associated with particular developmental pathways or with the progression of certain diseases. He found an association between a set of 88 long noncoding RNAs and Huntington's disease, a deadly neurodegenerative disorder. He also found weaker associations between specific groups of long noncoding RNAs and Alzheimer's disease, convulsive seizures, major depressive disorder and various cancers.

"Alex was the team member who developed this new research direction, did most of the experiments, and connected results to the lab's ongoing work," Lim said. The study was mostly funded through Lim's grant - a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director's New Innovator Award, a competitive award for innovative projects that have the potential for unusually high impact.

Unlike messenger RNA, which is transcribed from the DNA in genes and guides the production of proteins, lncRNA molecules do not carry the blueprints for proteins. Because of this fact, they were long thought to not influence a cell's fate or actions.

Nonetheless, lncRNAs also are transcribed from DNA in the same way as messenger RNA, and they, too, consist of unique sequences of nucleic acid building blocks.

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Brain development is guided by junk DNA that isn't really junk