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Originally posted by lordjeebus
That's irrelevant though. The suspect would have received a blood transfusion of the same blood type. Hospitals don't keep DNA samples of babies.
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Transfusions would be of the same a/b/o type, but an rh+ person could recieve a sample of the same letter but rh-, or o-
I've asked this of a forensic scientist who visited our high school, and he said that either the transfused blood would not show up, or it would throw the results off enough that hair samples or a cheek scrape or similar tissue sample would be used.