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Acknowledgements
I extend a huge thanks to my father and late mother for a great childhood and for enduring endless experimental misery, also to my wife and daughters for constant support and patience. There are too many friends and colleagues who have contributed over the years to name individually, but a special thanks must go to V. Wilson for her key work in the initial phases of developing DNA fingerprinting and to I. Patel for starting the first mass application of DNA testing, in immigration disputes. I am greatly indebted to the late G. Roderick of the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine whose patience, friendship and expertise proved so valuable during the early phases of commercializing DNA testing, and to all my friends at Cellmark Diagnostics who turned a bit of academic eccentricity into something truly of value. And finally, I extend my gratitude to the Lasker Foundation that has done me such a huge honor.
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Jeffreys, A. Genetic fingerprinting. Nat Med 11, 1035–1039 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm1005-1035
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