Genetic fingerprinting is a forensic technique used to identify a person by comparing his or her DNA with a given sample, e.g., blood from a crime scene can be genetically compared to blood from a suspect.
These improved classifications will eventually allow scientists to tailor drugs for patients whose individual response can be predicted by genetic fingerprinting.
the 2004 book Free Culture[10], author Lawrence Lessig digresses briefly to describe chimerism and suggest that it could, and had yet to, be well used as a television plot device (particularly for police procedurals involving genetic fingerprinting).
Sir Alec Jeffreys, the scientist who first developed the technique of genetic fingerprinting in Great Britain, is a proponent of a DNA database that contains the genetic profile of every individual in that country.
 See also: Fingerprinting, DNA, Genetic fingerprint, Trans, Human
  
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