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Phenotyping
Predicting Appearance, Ancestry, and Age from DNA
Unknown perpetrators of crime cannot be identified with the current forensic use of DNA. The European Horizon 2020 Project VISAGE (Visual Attributes Through Genomics) aims to ...
DNA as an Eyewitness: How Phenotyping is Being Used to Predict a Suspect’s Appearance
Like many teenage girls in the 1990s, Dr. Susan Walsh was fascinated by Agent Dana Scully’s work as a forensic pathologist on the television series, The X-Files. Already int...
We Scanned the DNA of 8,000 People to See how Facial Features are Controlled by Genes
Today’s blog is written by Seth M. Weinberg (Associate Professor in the Departments of Oral Biology, Human Genetics, and Anthropology. Co-Director of the Center for Craniofa...
Predicting Facial Morphology Using DNA Phenotyping
When trying to identify a perpetrator of a crime, phenotyping is another tool that investigators have to generate leads and narrow down suspects. Susan Walsh, Assistant Profes...
Under the Microscope – Walther Parson
Unknown perpetrators of crime cannot be identified with the current forensic use of DNA. The European Horizon 2020 Project VISAGE (Visual Attributes Through Genomics) aims to ...
DNA Phenotyping: Intelligence and the Judicial Process
Forensic laboratories, for many decades, have adopted a strong focus on the contribution to court outcomes. However, a significant contribution of forensic science is in the...
The Reality of DNA Phenotyping
It is easy to get excited or frightened about the predictive powers of DNA phenotyping, depending on your perspective. Knowing what genes led to higher intelligence and athl...
Phenotyping – What Can and Should We Predict?
David Ballard of King’s College London describes what phenotyping can accurately predict, the ethical and legal issues surrounding the topic, and the role it should play in ...
Improving DNA Phenotyping for Forensics
Krystal Breslin describes the work that she’s doing at IUPUI to discover which SNPs determine eye, skin, and hair color in the hopes of making mug shots available to the...