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mass screening

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mass screening,
n the examination of large samples or populations to determine the presence or absence of some trait, condition, or behavior.


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Police also mounted a mass screening in Bordelsey Green after pensioner Mohammed Amin was bludgeoned to death with a dumb-bell in his home in 2003.
Pitchfork, who worked as a baker and was married with two young children when he committed his crimes, was caught after the first ever mass screening for DNA in which 3,000 men in three Leicestershire villages were asked to volunteer blood or saliva samples.
Mass screening of his classmates and friends was also carried out.
 
 
 
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