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TIL DNA profiling was discovered by British geneticist Sir Alec Jeffreys in 1984 while working at the University of Leicester. He developed the technique of genetic fingerprinting by realizing that some regions of DNA have highly variable repetitive sequences that are unique to each individual.

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