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CODIS is an abbreviation for Combined DNA Index System.  CODIS is a national database containing DNA profiles of convicted felons. In order to amplify the DNA samples at these particular loci, the laboratory use two kits that contain the materials necessary to accomplish this result. These kits are known as the Profiler Plus and Cofiler DNA Typing Systems and are manufactured by Perkin Elmer Applied Biosystems.

All of the samples in the CODIS data bank are typed at the same thirteen STR loci, thus enabling law enforcement to compare unknown samples with samples in the data bank. CODIS was developed by a ...