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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...
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...
Using LIMS Technology (Laboratory information management system) to Obtain High Quality Nucleic Acid Samples
Nov 12 2020
Latin America today is one of the centers of the global health crisis caused by COVID-19, and Brazil is considered the epicenter of the pandemic in Latin America. As of July, ...
Maximizing DNA Yield from Fired Cartridge Casings
Nov 09 2020
Crimes involving guns have become increasingly prevalent in our society and investigative techniques for solving these crimes have been limited due to several factors. One f...
Investigative Genetic Genealogy and Criminalistics – What is the Future?
Nov 02 2020
Investigative Genetic Genealogy (IGG) has been amazing in solving both cold and recent cases and for exonerating the innocent. Each day, another once-thought-to-be-intractable...
Determining the Size of the D18S51 Long Alleles Observed in the Costa Rican Population using Commercial Genotyping Kits with STRs
Oct 29 2020
As previously reported, the Costa Rican population exhibits long alleles (not included in commercial allelic ladders) at the STR D18S51 locus, ranging from 28 to 40 Repetiti...
Loveless Lost: The Case of the Oldest Doe Identified Using Forensic Genetic Genealogy
Oct 27 2020
In the summer of 1979, a family was searching for artifacts in Buffalo Cave, a dark lava tube outside of the small and remote town of Dubois, Idaho. Approximately 200 feet fro...
Root-Cause Analysis: An Essential Step in the Management of Nonconformity
Oct 21 2020
Considering that an Integrated Quality Management System is prone to continuous improvement, the occurrence of non-conformities within processes evaluated by external or inter...