Abstract
Traditional DNA forensics uses short tandem repeats (STRs) to match a DNA sample to a suspect or a database. However, when no suspect has been identified and there is a lack of database hits, these markers cannot help the investigators to solve a crime. A considerable amount of literature has been published on DNA phenotyping in the past few years. Not surprisingly, some ethical and legal aspects are needed to be discussed about FDP since this technology provides a greater number of details about the proprietary ownership of samples, their family members, even as about their larger community (ethnical group).
Highlights
Forensic DNA phenotyping (FDP) is capable of becoming the mostprominent tool used in crime investigations of the future
Almost all countries have some form of DNA legislation, but these laws are generally confined to traditional DNA forensics, that is, compiling DNA profiles or fingerprints from crime scene material and comparing these to profiles stored in forensic DNA databases, legal permissibility and practice of forensic of DNA phenotyping remains unregulated in most recent jurisdiction [4,8,9]
In all other EU countries, regulatory frameworks for, and practices relating to FDP are complicated by either implicit or absent legislation
Summary
Forensic DNA phenotyping (FDP) is capable of becoming the mostprominent tool used in crime investigations of the future. DNA phenotyping refers to the prediction of an unknown person’s biogeographic ancestry and/or their physical characteristics gathered from SNP data. The current study finds that, in Hungary, this problematic issue has received far too little attention.
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