However, Sir Alec Jeffries - the founding father of DNA fingerprinting - also said he was worried about the project.

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Sir ALEC JEFFRIES (University of Leicester): The last thing on my mind was identification and forensics and paternity cases and all the rest of it.

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He is Sir Alec Jeffries.

NPR: Pioneering DNA Forensics