Do you mean Alec Jeffreys?
By the way, any evidence for your other assertions? Seems to me, Gill is on the right side of this case.
From
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alec_Jeffreys:
"DNA profiling
DNA profiling, based on typing individual highly variable minisatellites in the human genome, was also developed by Alec Jeffreys and his team in 1985,[24][25] with the term (DNA fingerprinting) being retained for the initial test that types many minisatellites simultaneously. By focusing on just a few of these highly variable minisatellites, DNA profiling made the system more sensitive, more reproducible and amenable to computer databases. It soon became the standard forensic DNA system used in criminal case work and paternity testing worldwide.
The development of
DNA amplification by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) opened up new approaches to forensic DNA testing, allowing automation, greatly increased sensitivity and a move to alternative marker systems. The most commonly used markers are now variable microsatellites, also known as short tandem repeats (STRs), which
Jeffreys first exploited in 1990 in the Mengele case.[26]
STR profiling was further refined by a team of scientists led by Peter Gill at the Forensic Science Service in the 1990s, allowing the launch of the UK National DNA Database (NDNAD) in 1995...."
1. Peter Gill was a key member of Jeffreys' team that developed the DNA fingerprint test in 1985; that is why Gill was the first author of the letter to
Nature (a very well-known science journal published in the UK).
2. Gill has since then made significant contributions, including through leading his own teams of researchers, to advancing DNA forensics. See his CV:
http://mastergeneticaforense.it/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/cv-Gill.pdf
From Gill's CV:
"I joined the Forensic Science Service (FSS) in 1982.
I began research into DNA in 1985, collaborating with Sir Alec Jeffreys of Leicester University. In the same year we published the first demonstration of the forensic application of DNA profiling. In 1987 I was given an award under the civil service inventor’s scheme for my discovery of the preferential sperm DNA extraction technique and the development of associated forensic tests. I was employed as Principal Research Scientist at the Forensic Science Service (FSS). This was the highest scientific grade within the FSS. I am Professor of Forensic Genetics and I hold concurrent positions at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health and the University of Oslo.
....
Low-template DNA
In relation to ... {DNA forensics identifying in 1993 - 1994 the remains of the family of the Russian czar, killed in 1918},
I was responsible for developing a ‘super-sensitive’ method of DNA profiling that is capable of analysing DNA profiles from a handful of cells. This method was originally known as low-copy-number (LCN) DNA profiling. Now it is known as Low template DNA profiling. New statistical methods and thinking were also developed to facilitate the new methods.
I published a book in 2014, “Misleading DNA Evidence” published by Elsevier that describes methods to report ‘trace-DNA’ along with the various pitfalls that are illustrated by recent miscarriages of justice.
....
List of Major achievements:
1)[HILITE}I provided the first demonstration in 1985 that DNA could be extracted from degraded stain material, and that DNA ‘fingerprints’ could be obtained from such material. The results were published in Nature: Gill, P.,
Jeffreys, A.J. and Werrett, D.J. (1985) Forensic application of DNA 'fingerprints'. Nature, 318, 577-579.[/HILITE]
2)
In conjunction with (1) I developed a revolutionary technique to separate sperm DNA from extraneous (female) material. Without this innovation it would have been impossible to analyse material from rape victims. These techniques are still used today.
3)I was closely involved with the first DNA case in the world. I carried out DNA analysis to confirm results provided by
Alec Jeffreys. ....
4)I identified the systems (short tandem repeat analysis) that are used today in all national DNA databases throughout the world.
5)I developed the statistical methods used by the national DNA database in order to compare samples (e.g. by development of allelic ladders and associated matching algorithms).
6)I was the first to recognise the importance of STRs and to develop STR multiplexes for forensic purposes in 1993.
{10 additional achievements are listed in the CV}."
Note that in describing his own contributions, Gill properly cites Alec Jeffreys. Gill also states that his initial contribution, in the letter of which he was first author, was demonstrating the extraction of DNA from degraded stain material, and
not, as falsely claimed by some guilters, such as apparently by Vixen in post #3533 in this thread, the invention of DNA fingerprinting (profiling) itself.
