The Roger Clemens trial took a turn on Friday morning as the prosecution tested cotton balls which was stored stored in a beer can by Brian McNamee for seven years. The results from testing those cotton balls confirmed a Clemens match.
The test was done by Alan Keel who is a DNA forensic scientist, and the odds that it would be a match is extremely rare. Here is a series of tweets describing what was found with testimony from Keel:
First Cotton Ball matched to Clemens. 1 in 15.4 trillion likelihood of a different match in US Caucasian population.
— NYDN Sports I-Team (@NYDNSportsITeam) May 25, 2012
Now we're looking at that First Cotton Ball, but a different area... Area A. "It's compatible with Mr. Clemens," Keel says.
— NYDN Sports I-Team (@NYDNSportsITeam) May 25, 2012
Keel on bloody cotton ball. "I would expect to find this profile to be unique to only one person that has ever lived on the planet."
— NYDN Sports I-Team (@NYDNSportsITeam) May 25, 2012
Item 3-2 (Second Cotton Ball) had a "pus-like deposit" with DNA "from Mr. Clemens." Matched at almost all 15 locations, but not quite, so...
— NYDN Sports I-Team (@NYDNSportsITeam) May 25, 2012
...Random Match Probability, likelihood of encountering a random individual with that profile is 1 in 173 Trillion.
— NYDN Sports I-Team (@NYDNSportsITeam) May 25, 2012
Keel also attempted to test a needle that McNamee had but there was no biological material to perform a test.
Read more about the Roger Clemens trial at our StoryStream here.
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