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A police sketch based on DNA

Today, Explained

The Edmonton Police Department's DNA Snapshot

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The Edmonton Police Department paid Parabon $1,700 Canadian dollars. The company has posted a selection of some of these so-called DNA mugshots that they've done for various law enforcement agencies around the world. Some of them do look a pretty good prediction of the person that was eventually caught. A lot of them are not even close.

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