DNA fingerprinting
Useful links
Information about Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys
University of Leicester pages
- Department of Genetics, Genomics and Cancer Sciences
- The Gene Genius (PDF, 546KB) - booklet to commemorate 20 years of genetic fingerprinting
External pages
Interviews with Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys
- Lasker Foundation 2005
- BBC Radio Leicester, 2007 (audio file)
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 2007
- Daily Telegraph, 2007
- Times Higher Education, 2009 (log-in required)
- Newsnight, 2009 (text, with short video clip)
- New Scientist, 2009 (log-in required)
Papers by Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys (abstracts)
- Hypervariable 'minisatellite' regions in human DNA. Jeffreys AJ, Wilson V, Thein SL Nature 314: 67-73 (1985)
- Individual-specific 'fingerprints' of human DNA. Jeffreys AJ, Wilson V, Thein SL Nature 316: 76-9 (1985)
- Professor Jeffreys in PubMed