SNPs can also provide a genetic fingerprint for use in identity testing.
The large group contained no genetic fingerprint that could be matched to modern wolf populations.
But a new study shows it may be possible to spare women needless treatments by taking a genetic fingerprint of their tumors.
Different hairs from the same marmoset had different genetic fingerprints.
If enough probes are applied, a genetic "fingerprint" emerges that scientists say is unique to one person among billions.
Nothing on the bodies, except of course as you pointed out his genetic fingerprint.
In such a case, the pathogen would have the same genetic fingerprint at both locations.
Analysis of individual genetic fingerprints is now a standard forensic tool.
"And what are the chances that two living organisms would have identical genetic fingerprints?"
Finally, to prove the virus was new, scientists made a map of its genetic fingerprints.