By looking for overlaps between these fragments and fitting the resulting contiguous sequences to reference sequences from humans and Neanderthals the team were able to come up with a DNA sequence for most of the mitochondrion, and it was nothing like one that would have been expected from either a modern human or a Neanderthal.

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With systems like Watson able to scan through a myriad of data sources there is a real opportunity for law enforcement to embrace these same technologies to support their efforts in quickly identifying patterns or likely sequences of events to better combat crime.

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