The bill would expand the databank of DNA samples the state takes from people convicted of violent crimes to include people convicted of all crimes, including misdemeanors.
So he postponed plans to develop a databank of tissue samples, holding the payroll at 40 people instead of the nearly 80 he once planned to have by now.
It was the first DNA match in a cold murder case -- unsolved and inactive -- since legislation was passed last fall allowing the state to create a criminal offender databank from DNA samples of convicted felons.
The Times correctly recognizes the urgent need for New York to join the 43 other states that have expanded their DNA databanks to include samples from all convicted criminals ("A Step Too Far on DNA Profiles," editorial, Dec. 18).
This time, China posted the genetic sequences of the virus on public databanks and supplied samples of the virus to other international laboratories, giving experts a head start on trying to develop a vaccine against it and diagnostic tests to detect it.
Currently, the availability of databanks containing population samples already screened to reduce typing ambiguities [26], as well as the development of programs allowing for an optimal treatment of ambiguous cases to estimate allele frequencies [27], [28], [29], [30], have allowed to undertake this study, and to include this information with more confidence.
The genealogical information and sample databank were previously described in Santos et al. [ 37].
Bry figured she could write a computer program that would comb the biorepository databanks and find acceptable samples.
As the present study's dependent variable proved to be different from that used in the sample calculation from the initial project, many subsequent calculations were performed a posteriori, using data from adults surveyed in the SB Brasil 2010 [ 9] (databank on which the sample calculation of the SB Minas Gerais [ 10] was based).
Considering that the analyses are based on scales, data from participants who did not answer a single question were excluded from databank, resulting in a final sample size of 3013 workers for the analysis of job strain, and 3035 for the emotional demand-control model.
