Forensic Nanotechnology in Forensic Genetics

Transitioning from Forensic Genetics to Forensic Genomics

Due to its support of law enforcement, forensics is a conservative field; nevertheless, driven by scientific and technological progress, forensic genetics is slowly transitioning into forensic genomics. With this Special Issue of Genes we acknowledge and appreciate this rather recent development by not only introducing the field of forensics to the wider community of geneticists, but we do so b...

PCR in forensic genetics.

Since the introduction in the mid-1980s of analyses of minisatellites for DNA analyses, a revolution has taken place in forensic genetics. The subsequent invention of the PCR made it possible to develop forensic genetics tools that allow both very informative routine investigations and still more and more advanced, special investigations in cases concerning crime, paternity, relationship, disas...

Forensic Science International: Genetics

X chromosome short-tandem repeats (X-STR) assays are helpful in complex kinship testing cases where autosomal and Y chromosome analyses convey little information. Their application has distinct advantages in mother-son and father-daughter kinship testing. Paternal relatives can be tested even in cases of deficiency paternity [1]. The purpose of this study was to create an allele frequency datab...

Finnish Population Genetics in a Forensic Context

The singularity of population structure observed in Finland is the ultimate result of a number of factors in history. Finland’s late emergence from the Pleistocene era coupled with its geographical isolation, low initial density of the breeding population and limited gene flow have ultimately contributed to genetic dissociation from the rest of Europe, post-expansion amplification of distinctiv...

Biomek-3000 and GenPlex in Forensic Genetics