Table 3.

Proportion of skin swabs yielding foreign and relevant DNA profiles when the complainant reported washing themself or not, separated by TSI.

	TSI	Skin samplesanalyzed	ForeignProfile	Relevantprofile
Bath or shower	<24 h	17	35%	12%
No bath nor shower		78	41%	35%
Bath or shower	24–48 h	19	5%	5%
No bath nor shower		15	47%	27%
Bath or shower	Overall (0–48 h)	36	19%	8%
No bath nor shower		93	42%	33%