THE first Gene Identification Card with 24 locus was released in Chongqing Municipality on June 24. This card distinguishes the holder from the other 5.8 billion people living in the world, eastday.com reported.

Compared with another Gene Identification Card, including only 18 locus introduced in Wuhan of Hubei Province a few days ago, this one boasts a more accurate rate of disease diagnosis, emergency rescue, and paternity identification. Meanwhile, when it is used in criminal cases, this ID card can provide police with clearer information.

The Gene ID Card is larger than the normal ID card, and it is colourful. Besides containing information on birth date, nationality and gender like normal ID cards, this card contains 24 gene locus, which are in line with international practice. As for the locus, they are selected from a DNA molecular chain extract of a human cell. These 24 locus are unique, except in the case of identical twins.

Lu Jing, an expert from the paternity identification laboratory of Chongqing Family Planning Scientific Research Centre, told reporters that as early as 1999, when they were making innate handicap identification through gene diagnosis technology and paternity identification technology, they discovered that the human gene's locus were 24 in total.

Among the other 5.8 billion people in the world, it is possible for two people to share the same birth date and name. People might have similar facial and voice features, so it can be difficult to distinguish individuals from one another.

A gene ID card makes the process easy, as only gene can represent individual hereditary characteristics, and they never change.

She also said they used this new technology for paternity identification, and the accuracy rate reached about 99.999 per cent. Anything as small as a drop of blood, or a scraping of skin, can be used as material. (Star News)