This Week in Forensic Science
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 what you need to know to get out the door! Draft DNA Phenotyping Law Set to go Before Swiss Parliament […]
Christine Jessop’s Killer Identified: Solved Cold Case Raises Questions about Genetic Privacy
Today’s blog is written by Julia Creet, Professor of English, York University, Canada. Reposted from The Conversation with permission. Julia Creet, York University, Canada On Oct. 15, Toronto police announced that they had finally solved the 1984 murder of Christine Jessop using DNA evidence and genetic genealogy websites. Identifying Calvin Hoover as Jessop’s […]
Genetic Structure of the Male Mestiza Population of the State Of Puebla, Identified By Y-STR Markers
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” chromosome included in the amplification kit Y Filer® Plus (Thermo Fisher Scientific), identifying 268 different haplotypes. The DYF387S1 and DYS385 markers had the highest genetic diversity at 0.9604 and […]
This Week in Forensic Science
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 what you need to know to get out the door! Texas: Arrestee DNA Collection Solved Over 250 Cases in One […]
LAMP: A New Fast, Specific, Sensitive, and Versatile Technique for Molecular Sex Determination in Humans
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 components is undertaken using various approaches, ranging from immunochromagroacidic methods in the detection of males’ own antigens (P30 or semelogenin, for example) to the genetic typification of conventional PCR-based sex, […]
The Ancestry of the Ecuadorian “Mestiza” Population in Light of Informative Markers of Ancestry, Mitochondrial DNA and STRs of Sex Chromosomes
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 inhabitants, according to the last census of the country, and are predominantly descendants of the mixture of Spanish men and native women, during Spanish colonization. With this work it was […]
GITAD: 20 Years of Experience in Quality Testing
In his presentation during the GCLAITH meeting during ISHI 31, Prof. Dr. Juan Carlos Alvarez (Laboratorio de Identificación Genética – Universidad de Granada) discussed the 20 years of accumulated experience that the interlaboratory exercise carried out by the Ibero-American Group of Work in DNA Analysis (GITAD) in most of the Latin American countries, Spain, and […]
This Week in Forensic Science
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 what you need to know to get out the door! Professor Develops First-ever Forensic Genetic Genealogy Certificate, Sets Sights on […]
The Missing Piece: A New Video Series Focusing on the People Behind Forensic Genetic Genealogy Successes
Carla Walker. Christine Jessop. Siobhan McGuinness. For years, these victims were listed on cold case files in law enforcement evidence boxes. While never forgotten, limitations in forensic science prevented their cases from being closed. Families waited decades for answers and justice while their killers remained unidentified. To generate leads in criminal cases investigators […]
