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There were no witnesses to the gruesome murder of a South Carolina mother and her 3-year-old daughter inside a busy apartment complex four years ago. But a new technology that can create an image of someone using DNA samples left at crime scenes might bring police closer to catching the killer.

Reston, Va.-based Parabon Nanolabs, with funding from the Department of Defense, has debuted a breakthrough type of analysis called DNA phenotyping which the company says can predict a person's physical appearance from the tiniest DNA samples, like a speck of blood or strand of hair.

The DNA phenotyping service, commercially known as "Snapshot," could put a face on millions of unsolved cases, including international ones, andgenerate investigative leads when the trail has gone cold.

"This is particularly useful when there are no witnesses, no hits in the DNA database and nothing to go on," Dr. Ellen McRae Greytak, Parabon's director of bioinformatics, told FoxNews.com.

- Dr. Ellen McRae Greytak, Parabon Nanolabs

"Traditional forensic analysis treats DNA as a fingerprint, whereas Snapshot treats it as a blueprint -- a genetic description of a person from which physical appearance can be inferred," Greytak said.

Parabon's new technology reads the parts of the human genome that code for the differences in physical appearance between people. Snapshot is able to predict such critical traits as skin color, hair color, eye color and face shape. It can also predict the individual's ancestry as well as highly-detailed traits, like freckles.

Using sophisticated computer algorithms that have been trained on thousands of reference samples, Snapshot translates this raw genetic code into predictions of physical traits. These are then combined to create a composite profile, or "digital mugshot" of an unknown suspect -- with remarkable accuracy, according to the company.

"Traits are generally predicted with more than 80 percent confidence, and importantly, Snapshot also reports which phenotypes can be excluded with more than 95 percent confidence," said Greytak.

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'SNAPSHOT' OF MURDER DNA could reveal face of killer in unsolved SC case

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The Australian red kangaroo is a big powerful animal but the science of DNA extraction has helped paint a picture of one of its ancient ancestors that makes the red look like a puny geek.

Take a red kangaroo, then double or triple its size to around ten feet in height and over 500 pounds in weight. Next, give it a set of large, nasty, hoof-like claws and then hit it in the face with a shovel. What you finish up with should resemble the long extinct giant short-faced kangaroo. This was the largest kangaroo to walk the Earth and, with its flat face and forward-pointing eyes, it was a strange looking beast.

Scientists have finally managed to extract DNA from some of these giant kangaroos the mysterious marsupial megafauna that roamed Australia over 40,000 years ago.

A team of scientists led by Dr Bastien Llamas and Professor Alan Cooper from the University of Adelaides Australian Centre for Ancient DNA (ACAD) have extracted DNA sequences from two species: the Giant Short-faced (Simosthenurus occidentalis) and a giant wallaby (Protemnodon anak).

These two fossils were discovered in a Tasmanian cave. The bones came from animals that died around 45,000 years ago. The cold dry cave provided good preservation conditions in the cave. This allowed enough short pieces of DNA to survive for the research team to reconstruct partial mitochondrial genomes which are genetic messages passed from mother to offspring. Mitochondrial genomes are commonly widely used to establish evolutionary relationships between fossil species.

The ancient DNA reveals that extinct giant wallabies are very close relatives of large living kangaroos, such as the red and western grey kangaroos, says lead author Dr. Bastien Llamas, ACAD senior research associate. Their skeletons had suggested they were quite primitive macropods a group that includes kangaroos, wallabies, pademelons and quokkas but now we can place giant wallaby much higher up the kangaroo family tree.

The research has also confirmed that short-faced kangaroos are a highly distinct lineage of macropods, which had been predicted on their unusual anatomy.

Scientists have previously obtained complete nuclear or mitochondrial genomes from extinct megafauna in Eurasia, the Americas, and New Zealand. Fossils of the giant short-faced kangaroo, like the Naracoorte World Heritage fossil deposits found in South Australia, have been discovered in many parts of Australia, including the, Lake Menindee in New South Wales, Darling Downs in Queensland. But the poorer preservation conditions and the age of Australian megafauna remains have meant that retrieval of its DNA has been impossible until now, leaving scientists just bones for analysis.

In addition to poor DNA preservation, most of the extinct Australian megafauna do not have very close relatives roaming around today, which makes it more difficult to retrieve and interpret the genetic data, says Dr. Llamas. Together with my colleagues Alan Cooper and Paul Brotherton, we had to think hard about experimental and bioinformatics approaches to overcome more than 10 million years of divergent evolution between the extinct and living species.

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She was bludgeoned as she house-sat with her sister Jan, mother Eileen and her sister's partner, Nigel Acres, while the property's owners holidayed abroad over Christmas.

More than 9,500 people have been interviewed by police, a 20,000 reward has been offered, a BBC Crimewatch appeal has been made and a limited DNA match of a suspect has been yielded.

However, despite an exhaustive inquiry, no one has been charged. On the first-year anniversary of the murder, officers handed out leaflets and put up posters about the DNA screening.

They asked for men aged over 17 who live, work or visit Bosham to provide a DNA mouth swab and thumbprint to eliminate them from the inquiry.

The death of Ms Graves shocked the small community of Bosham, which featured in an episode of the ITV crime drama Midsomer Murders.

A DNA screening is taking place in the village of Bosham (Christopher Pledger)

Last month, Ms Graves's two children Tim Wood, 32, and 35-year-old Jemima Harrison spoke - along with Mr Acres - ahead of the first anniversary of her murder.

The family said Christmas was put "on hold" as they faced their first festive season without her and as her murderer still remains at large.

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'Midsomer' murder: DNA screening begins in hunt for Valerie Graves' killer

When his father passed away in October, Andrew Weckman received an intriguing offer from the funeral director handling the arrangements.

The owner of Perman Funeral Home in Shaler suggested that Mr. Weckman harvest and store his deceased fathers DNA. That way the sample could be analyzed in future years as the mysteries of human genes continue to be uncovered.

My father was adopted, said Mr. Weckman, 26.So we didnt know too much about his background, medical history or hereditary information. My wife and I would like to know for our own benefit, and our unborn children, if there are any kind of hereditary diseases or anything we should be aware of.

For an industry that has seen dramatic changes in the spending patterns and preferences of its clients in recent years, DNA banking offers both a potential new stream of revenue for funeral homes and another service they can offer families to cope with their loss.

Perman Funeral Home is the first funeral home in Pennsylvania to offer DNA banking througha partnership with the Ontario, Canada, company, DNA Memorial, which provides collection services and products. DNA Memorial has a patent pending on the process of attaching DNA to inert material to prevent it from deteriorating over time.

Brad Marsh, a manager at DNA Memorial, said the technology has been around for seven or eight years. It was developed by the companys founder, Ryan Lehto, while he was a masters student at Lakehead University in Thunderbay, Ontario, and was doing research on the retrieval of ancient DNA from mummies and ancient life forms.

The company only began making traction in the funeral industry in the past year when Jeff Harbeson, a former funeral director, became president of DNA Memorial and began using his connections with funeral directors to market the product. So far, about 30 funeral homes in and around southern Ontario offer the DNA service. In the U.S., there are now about 20 funeral homes that provide DNA banking through the company.

We believe this will catch on because we are living in the age of genetics, and DNA is the ultimate in family history for medicine, Mr. Marsh said.DNA is being used for many medical and genealogical purposes and this will only increase as genetics expands.

DNA is a human genetic record that provides medical and genealogical information that has proven invaluable for a myriad of reasons. It can be used to diagnose medical conditions, calculate inherited risks for children, determine medical tests and medical dosage, and determine disease risk and preventative measures.

Likewise, it can play an important role in learning more about family ancestors, examining biological and geographical relationships between two individuals, finding relatives or adoptees, and learning from which relative certain traits were inherited.

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Police can build physical profile of suspect, even if there are no witnesses Until now, genetic samples could only be matched to criminals on record Innocent suspects can be eliminated using new technology, says expert Each test costs 700, and it takes up to ten days to analyse the material

By Martin Beckfor Thed for The Mail on Sunday

Published: 17:47 EST, 17 January 2015 | Updated: 10:46 EST, 18 January 2015

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Police are now able to build up a detailed picture of a suspect from the smallest speck of blood left at a crime scene thanks to an extraordinary DNA breakthrough.

New advances in the technology mean detectives will know if an offender is black or white, the colour of their hair and eyes, their height and age even if there are no witnesses to the crime.

Until now, investigators have only been able to match genetic material to records of criminals already in the national database, but the innovation will produce a 'DNA photofit' describing the offender.

Dr Denise Syndercombe-Court, a forensic genetics expert at King's College London, said: 'The new technologies raise the possibility that we won't need an actual eyewitness to a crime in order to produce a picture of how the suspect looks.

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