Transitioning from Forensic Genetics to Forensic Genomics
Manfred Kayser 1,* and Walther Parson 2,3,*
1
Department of Genetic Identification, Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam, 3000 CA Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2
Institute of Legal Medicine, Medical University Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
3
Forensic Science Program, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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Genes 2018, 9(1), 3; https://doi.org/10.3390/genes9010003
Received: 13 December 2017 / Revised: 15 December 2017 / Accepted: 15 December 2017 / Published: 22 December 2017
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Forensic Genomics)
Abstract
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 by emphasizing on different topics of forensic relevance where genomic, transcriptomic, and epigenomic principles, methods, and datasets of humans and beyond are beginning to be used to answer forensic questions. View Full-Text
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