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In 1994, Congress passed the DNA Identification Act which authorized the FBI to do two things: (1) create and maintain a national DNA database, and (2) establish standards for forensic DNA testing. Because the human genome is full of DNA tandem repeats and because they vary in the number of contiguous repeat units, it was decided to use tandem repeats to build the DNA database. In 1996, 13 loci were chosen to be the core short tandem repeats (STRs) for CODIS, Combined DNA Index System. All 13 lo