DNAprint Genomics (DNAG)

[mingwan0]

Now here's the thing:

http://www.dnaprint.com/pr_retinome.html

DNAPrint to Present RETINOME Launch and Other Advancements at Upcoming Conferences

April 30, 2002

RETINOME(TM) is the world's first and only complex genomics classifier for the inference of human iris color from DNA, capable of iris color inference with greater than 99% accuracy and iris color shade with significantly greater than 99% accuracy.

DNAPrint intends to commercialize the test to the US forensics community by year's end, and to other forensics scientists throughout the world by the end of 2003.

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040817/fltu014_1.html

DNAPrint Announces the Release of RETINOME(TM) for the Forensic Market: Eye Color Prediction From Crime Scene DNA!
Tuesday August 17, 2004

The most recent blind validation test for 65 individuals of predominant (>80%) European ancestry, between the ages of 10 and 60 years, showed greater than 97% accuracy...

We know what happened and why further work was required on the product. This is perhaps one reason why the company is reluctant to make any statement about development schedules or anticipated completion dates, but that is IMO a mistake.