title: A comment on "The hare and the tortoise: one small step for four SNPs, one giant leap for SNP-kind".
abstract: A review recently published in this journal on the future of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the forensic field raised important points, some of which deserve further analysis. A contribution to the discussion of relevant theoretical, methodological and technological aspects, as well as of some legal constraints is presented.
authors.affiliation: IPATIMUP, Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular da Universidade do Porto, Portugal. aamorim@ipatimup.pt
authors.forename: António
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Amorim
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D016172:DNA Fingerprinting / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D018895:Microsatellite Repeats; D020641:Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide; D014998:Y Chromosome / Q000235:genetics