Borneo’s Indigenous Men Yield New Genetic Map for Forensic Science
A new study of 257 men from four indigenous groups in Malaysian Borneo provides the first 27-locus Y-STR forensic reference ...
Tag: forensic genetics
Old Hospital Samples Became DNA Lifelines in Israel’s Toughest Identification Effort
A new study shows that archived hospital specimens, from FFPE tissue blocks to cytology slides, can yield reliable ante-mortem DNA ...
Machine Learning Meets Forensic DNA: SNPs That Identify Relatives and Separate East Asian Populations
A moderate-density panel of about 2,000 SNPs combined with machine learning can identify family relationships out to third degree and ...
The Kinship Clock Is Ticking: New Framework Aims to Name the Dead of History’s Mass Graves
Forensic scientists have proposed a kinship-centred continuous identification framework designed to beat the shrinking genetic window that threatens the naming ...
Ancient Migratory Threads Woven into the Y Chromosomes of Shanghai’s Han Men
A large-scale Y-chromosome study of Han men in four Shanghai districts reveals extraordinarily high forensic haplotype diversity and traces the ...
Surnames and Y Chromosomes Tell Divergent Stories in Northwest Argentina
A study of 232 men from the Argentine Northwest shows that surnames and Y-chromosome lineages correspond far less reliably there ...
New 16-Marker DNA Panel Detects Tiny Forensic Contributors in Mixed Samples
Researchers in Wuhan have developed a single-tube 16-plex DIP-SNP genetic panel that can detect a minor DNA contributor at ratios ...
Rwanda Builds First National DNA Fingerprint Baseline From 815 Profiles
Researchers have compiled allele frequencies for 23 autosomal STR loci from 815 Rwandan individuals, creating a national DNA reference dataset ...
New Software pSTRminer Uncovers Thousands of Forensic DNA Markers in Cattle
Researchers have developed pSTRminer, an integrated bioinformatic tool that mines cattle genomes for polymorphic short tandem repeats and builds a ...
New 154-plex STR sequencing panel enables comprehensive forensic genetic analysis
Forensic genetics has long relied on a workhorse technology that, despite decades of refinement, has always had a fundamental blind ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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