Carracedo Álvarez, ÁngelPrieto Solla, Lourdes2020-04-062020-04-062019Carracedo, Á., & Prieto, L. (2018). Beyond the CSI effect:Keys for good forensic genetics communication. Mètode Revista de Difusió de la Investigació, (9). https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.9.10628http://hdl.handle.net/10347/21187Forensic genetics brings together all the genetic knowledge required to solve specific legal problems. In recent decades new techniques have shown the potential of DNA as a profiling system. These advances have arrived hand in hand with other improvements in terms of communication of test results, with the introduction of statistical evaluation. In the collective imagination, nourished by TV series such as CSI, forensic evidence is presented as one hundred percent certain, but the reality is different. However, statistical analysis has allowed us to turn from handcrafted forensic medicine based on intuition and experience, to tests based on evidence and data, where uncertainty is quantified in probabilistic terms.eng© 2019 by the authors. Licensee Universitat de València. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of authorship and publication in the journalhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Forensic GeneticsDNA FingerprintCriminalisticsDNAGenetic Polymorphismjournal article10.7203/metode.9.106282174-9221open access