Microhaplotypes in forensic genetics

F Oldoni, KK Kidd, D Podini - Forensic Science International: Genetics, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Microhaplotype loci (microhaps, MHs) are a novel type of molecular marker of less than 300
nucleotides, defined by two or more closely linked SNPs associated in multiple allelic …

Forensic autosomal short tandem repeats and their potential association with phenotype

N Wyner, M Barash, D McNevin - Frontiers in genetics, 2020‏ - frontiersin.org
Forensic DNA profiling utilizes autosomal short tandem repeat (STR) markers to establish
identity of missing persons, confirm familial relations, and link persons of interest to crime …

Forensic proteomics

GJ Parker, HE McKiernan, KM Legg… - Forensic Science …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Protein is a major component of all biological evidence, often the matrix that embeds other
biomolecules such as polynucleotides, lipids, carbohydrates, and small molecules. The …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluating 130 microhaplotypes across a global set of 83 populations

KK Kidd, WC Speed, AJ Pakstis, DS Podini… - Forensic Science …, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Today the primary DNA markers used in forensics are short tandem repeat (STR)
polymorphisms (STRPs), initially selected because they are highly polymorphic. However …

Pedigrees and perpetrators: uses of DNA and genealogy in forensic investigations

SH Katsanis - Annual review of genomics and human genetics, 2020‏ - annualreviews.org
In the past few years, cases with DNA evidence that could not be solved with direct matches
in DNA databases have benefited from comparing single-nucleotide polymorphism data with …

Recommendations of the DNA Commission of the International Society for Forensic Genetics (ISFG) on short tandem repeat sequence nomenclature

KB Gettings, M Bodner, LA Borsuk, JL King… - Forensic Science …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
The DNA Commission of the International Society for Forensic Genetics (ISFG) has
developed a set of nomenclature recommendations for short tandem repeat (STR) …

How HLA diversity is apportioned: influence of selection and relevance to transplantation

AS Maróstica, K Nunes, EC Castelli… - … of the Royal …, 2022‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
In his 1972 paper 'The apportionment of human diversity', Lewontin showed that, when
averaged over loci, genetic diversity is predominantly attributable to differences among …

Associations between forensic loci and expression levels of neighboring genes may compromise medical privacy

MM Bañuelos, YJA Zavaleta, A Roldan… - Proceedings of the …, 2022‏ - pnas.org
A set of 20 short tandem repeats (STRs) is used by the US criminal justice system to identify
suspects and to maintain a database of genetic profiles for individuals who have been …

Linkage disequilibrium matches forensic genetic records to disjoint genomic marker sets

MD Edge, BFB Algee-Hewitt, TJ Pemberton… - Proceedings of the …, 2017‏ - pnas.org
Combining genotypes across datasets is central in facilitating advances in genetics. Data
aggregation efforts often face the challenge of record matching—the identification of dataset …

A Pipeline and Recommendations for Population and Individual Diagnostic SNP Selection in Non‐Model Species

EE Armstrong, C Li, MG Campana… - Molecular Ecology …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Despite substantial reductions in the cost of sequencing over the last decade, genetic
panels remain relevant due to their cost‐effectiveness and flexibility across a variety of …