Criminal Law Review Biannual judicial doctrine and case-law publication published by Romanian Association of Penal Sciences and Universul Juridic Publishing House ISSN 2248–0528
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Identifying individuals by means of forensic genotyping

Ioan Aron

We may say that modern genetics was born in 1900, when Mendel’s rules were rediscovered, as presented by their author in a series of scientific communications starting with 1865. The word „gene” was printed for the first time in 1909, while the first demonstration according to which each gene may be associated to a certain chromosome was made known to the scientific world in 1910. The first genetic map – showing the relative location of six genes on one chromosome – was published in 1913. That would be, briefly, the history of the beginning of the greatest scientific adventure lived by the humanity.

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