The book is primarily concerned with DNA fingerprinting and DNA profiling in the context of forensic medicine and kinship testing. It concentrates on methods of determining the degree of relatedness of members of the same species, focusing on humans and occasionally glancing at other species.

M. Krawczak (Author) , J. Schmidtke (Author)

1. The genetic background 2. Studying DNA polymorphism 3. Origin and maintenance of DNA polymorphism 4. DNA typing to identify suspects 5. DNA typing to establish relationships 6. Further development - technical and ethical issues