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Tara Luther
This Week in Forensic Science
Dec 11 2020
No one has hours to scour the papers to keep up with the latest news, so we’ve curated the top news stories in the field of Forensic Science for this week. Here’s...
Christine Jessop’s Killer Identified: Solved Cold Case Raises Questions about Genetic Privacy
Dec 09 2020
Today’s blog is written by Julia Creet, Professor of English, York University, Canada. Reposted from The Conversation with permission. Julia Creet, York University, C...
Genetic Structure of the Male Mestiza Population of the State Of Puebla, Identified By Y-STR Markers
Dec 07 2020
The allelic and haplotipal frequencies of 269 unrelated male individuals residing in the State of Puebla were analyzed, based on 25 STR markers of the “Y” chromoso...
This Week in Forensic Science
Dec 04 2020
No one has hours to scour the papers to keep up with the latest news, so we’ve curated the top news stories in the field of Forensic Science for this week. Here’s...
LAMP: A New Fast, Specific, Sensitive, and Versatile Technique for Molecular Sex Determination in Humans
Dec 03 2020
Determining sex in biological samples from forensic cases is the first step in identifying persons of particular importance in sexual offences. The detection of male component...
The Ancestry of the Ecuadorian “Mestiza” Population in Light of Informative Markers of Ancestry, Mitochondrial DNA and STRs of Sex Chromosomes
Nov 30 2020
The Ecuadorian population is the result of a complex mix of three different origins: indigenous peoples, European and Afro-Americans. The mestizos comprise 71.9% of the inhabi...
GITAD: 20 Years of Experience in Quality Testing
Nov 23 2020
In his presentation during the GCLAITH meeting during ISHI 31, Prof. Dr. Juan Carlos Alvarez (Laboratorio de Identificación Genética – Universidad de Granada) discussed th...
This Week in Forensic Science
Nov 20 2020
No one has hours to scour the papers to keep up with the latest news, so we’ve curated the top news stories in the field of Forensic Science for this week. Here’s...
The Missing Piece: A New Video Series Focusing on the People Behind Forensic Genetic Genealogy Successes
Nov 18 2020
Carla Walker. Christine Jessop. Siobhan McGuinness. For years, these victims were listed on cold case files in law enforcement evidence boxes. While never forgotten, limitatio...