Tammy Ballard

And those cells are showing up in my and creating a mixture of DNA.

So what?

everyone needs to realize is that there are mixtures, but the technology is advancing so much that we're able to deal with those mixtures so much better.

Now, there are limitations, so genealogy is coming along very rapidly, but that type of testing, that SNP testing, not the traditional STR testing,

Has the limitations that you may not be able to work with something that is a 3 person mixture.

Now, again, we have Nancy's profile.

So, if we take Nancy out of any mixture now, maybe we're dealing with a 2 person mixture and that might be something that we can use for genealogy.

But with traditional STR testing, we're up to evaluating five-person mixtures.

So it is definitely something that we can work with, and it does not take a year.

yes with the current computer technology the software that is developed you can actually estimate now it's an estimate so you can estimate the percent of contribution from each person in that mixture so when i report

The data, and I say, okay, I have a 3 person mixture.

92% of that is estimated to come from 1 contributor and 8% of that is estimated to come from another contributor.

I say those values, because I was able to get an 8% contributor up to a CODA search.

So we are moving so far forward with the technology that it's just better and better.

So as long as the laboratories that they're sending them to are utilizing this technology, which they are, this is not going to take a year.