Forensic DNA profiling and databasing: The Philippine experience

• Main Author: De Ungria, Maria Corazon A.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2010
• Subjects: DNA fingerprinting—Philippines; DNA fingerprinting—Law and legislation—Philippines; DNA data banks—Philippines; DNA data banks—Law and legislation—Philippines; Medical Jurisprudence
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/5170
• Institution: De La Salle University

The Philippines, an archipelagic country of over 92 million people (USAID 2008), is a member state of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. Unlike Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia, the Philippines does not yet have a national DNA database or any legislation that would facilitate its...