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Genetic markers provide primate link in human evolution

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12 March 2014

Genetic markers provide unprecedented primate link in human evolution

Genetics provide stunning new answers to the question of human evolution, according to Auckland cancer researcher, Dr Graeme Finlay.

Genetic markers that are used to follow the development of populations of cells have exactly the same character as those that track the development of species, says Dr Finlay who has just published a book on genetics and human evolution.

His book, Human Evolution: Genes, Genealogies and Phylogenies, was published by Cambridge University Press late last year.

Dr Finlay is senior lecturer in Scientific Pathology at the Department of Molecular Medicine and Pathology, and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Auckland Cancer Society Research Centre, in the University of Auckland.

Controversy over human evolution remains widespread, but the human genome project and genetic sequencing of many other species has provided myriad precise and unambiguous genetic markers that establish our evolutionary relationships with other mammals, says Dr Finlay.

This book identifies and explains these identifiable, rare and complex markers including endogenous retroviruses, genome-modifying transposable elements, gene-disabling mutations, segmental duplications and gene-enabling mutations.

These new genetic tools also provide fascinating insights into when and how many features of human biology arose: from aspects of placental structure, vitamin C dependence and trichromatic vision, to tendencies to gout, cardiovascular disease and cancer.

The book brings together a decade's worth of research and ties it together to provide an overwhelming argument for the mammalian ancestry of the human species.

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DNA database Bill critically important, says Shatter

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The DNA database would strengthen the Gardas hand in solving crime and prosecuting those behind it, but was also an important piece of human rights legislation in strengthening the position of any person who was the victim of a miscarriage of justice, Minister for Justice Alan Shatter has said. Photograph: Getty Images

The introduction of new legislation providing for a DNA database is the most important that the Government will enact in its lifetime, Minister for Justice Alan Shatter has said.

The database would strengthen the Gardas hand in solving crime and prosecuting those behind it, but was also an important piece of human rights legislation in strengthening the position of any person who was the victim of a miscarriage of justice.

The existence of DNA databases in other countries has proved over the years to be of great assistance in identifying incidences of miscarriages of justice, Mr Shatter said as the Bill concluded Oireachtas committee stage this morning.

He added that having a database made up of DNA samples taken from convicted criminals and suspects for crimes would also enable the Republic to more fully co-operate with law enforcement authorities in other countries in solving crime with a cross-border dimension.

It will ensure that people involved in cross-border crime know there is maximum co-operation between police forces across Europe, that we can access information that is held in other EU states.

He said the DNA samples would be taken and held in accordance with European laws underpinned by human rights considerations.

The Criminal Justice (Forensic Evidence and DNA Database System) Bill 2013 completed committee stage this morning where a series of minor amendments were considered by the joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality.

The Bill allows DNA samples to be taken from most people suspected of a crime, by force if needed, and creates rules around the period of retention of the sample on the database, depending on whether the individual is convicted or not and the seriousness of the offence.

Samples cannot be taken from children under 14 years of age.

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