Source Attribution Using Forensic Genomics
A special issue of Genes (ISSN 2073-4425). This special issue belongs to the section "Population and Evolutionary Genetics and Genomics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 October 2021) | Viewed by 517
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In this Special Issue of Genes, we examine the recent advances in source attribution of biological material in the field of forensic genomics. Analysis of single nucleotide (SNP) and short tandem repetitive (STR) polymorphisms is the gold standard for human identification. These procedures have evolved considerably since their inception due, in part, to the rapid application of massively parallel sequencing, dense SNP arrays, and the bioinformatic analysis of these data for research and casework. Laboratories are now better able to resolve DNA mixtures using sequence-level data, are capable of predicting outwardly visible characteristics for investigative leads and can map unidentified remains to a country or region of origin with unprecedented accuracy. I am humbled to guest edit this Special Issue and hope that you enjoy reading about the recent benchtop and computational advances to source attribution in the field of forensic genomics.
Dr. Frank Wendt
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- forensic
- genomics
- short tandem repeats
- single nucleotide polymorphisms
- outwardly visible characteristics
- biogeographic ancestry
- mixture deconvolution
- bioinformatics
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