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The Idaho Student Homicides and the Future of Forensic Genetic Genealogy

Journal

Forensic Genomics

Date Published

March 2023

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Guiding Interpretation: Leveraging High-Density SNP Data from Major U.S. Populations for Forensic Genetic Analyses

DJO-NIJ-25-RO-0002

Open

Funding First Awarded

2024

$990,468

Age estimation from epigenetic features of hair DNA

15PNIJ-24-GG-03843-SLFO

Open

Funding First Awarded

2024

$640,358

An Admixture Approach to Trihybrid Ancestry Variation in the Philippines With Implications for Forensic Anthropology

Journal

Human Biology

Date Published

2018

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Macromorphoscopic trait expression in a cranial sample Medellin, Colombia

Journal

Forensic Science International

Date Published

September 2016

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Molar Crenulation Trait Definition and Variation in Modern Human Populations

Journal

Homo-Journal of Comparative Human Biology

Date Published

May 2018

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Intraobserver Error in Macromorphoscopic Trait Data

Journal

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Date Published

2018

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Flanking Region Variation of ForenSeq (TM) DNA Signature Prep Kit STR and SNP Loci in Yavapai Native Americans

Journal

Forensic Science International: Genetics

Date Published

May 2017

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

A panel of 74 AISNPs: Improved Ancestry Inference within Eastern Asia

Journal

Forensic Science International: Genetics

Date Published

2016

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Support Activities under Section 13(d) of Executive Order 14074: Workshops on Law Enforcement Use of Probabilistic DNA Technologies and Person-based Predictive Policing

15PNIJ-23-GG-04263-NIJB

Open

Funding First Awarded

2023

$650,000

Democratizing investigative genetic genealogy

15PNIJ-23-GG-04213-DNAX

Open

Funding First Awarded

2023

$759,008

Development of computational methods for genetic identification and kinship analysis of forensic samples

15PNIJ-23-GG-01948-RESS

Open

Funding First Awarded

2023

$111,000

The Evaluation and Refinement of Nonmetric Sex and Ancestry Assessment Methods in Modern Japanese and Thai Individuals

Date Published

August 2016

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Thesis/Dissertation

NIJ Awards Over $11 Million to Support Forensic Science Research and Development in 2022

On September 30, 2022, NIJ announced $11.6 million in funding to support 23 projects under the “NIJ FY22 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes” solicitation. Through its research and development grant funding, NIJ continues to advance the speed, accuracy, and reliability of forensic analysis, which ultimately bolsters the...

An Introduction to Forensic Genetic Genealogy Technology for Forensic Science Service Providers

Date Published

September 2022

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Quantifying the accuracy of low-quality DNA sample analysis from genotyping to genealogical searching and integration as a bioinformatic pipeline

15PNIJ-22-GG-04410-DNAX

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2022

$266,406

North Asian population relationships in a global context

Journal

Scientific Reports

Date Published

May 2022

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Population genetic data of 74 microhaplotypes in four major US population groups

Journal

Forensic Science International: Genetics

Date Published

2020

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Relaxing the assumption of unrelatedness in the numerator and denominator of likelihood ratios for DNA mixtures

Journal

Forensic Science International: Genetics

Date Published

March 2021

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

The Macromorphoscopic Databank

Journal

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Date Published

2018

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Reference Material

Evaluation of nuclear DNA from rootless hair for forensic purposes

2020-DQ-BX-0014

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2020

$747,384

Ancestry Estimation in Forensic Anthropology: Geometric Morphometric versus Standard and Nonstandard Interlandmark Distances

Journal

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Date Published

July 2016

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Evaluating 130 Microhaplotypes Across a Global Set of 83 Populations

Journal

Forensic Science International: Genetics

Date Published

July 2017

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Program/Project Evaluation

Individual Identifiability Predicts Population Identifiability in Forensic Microsatellite Markers

Journal

Current Biology

Date Published

April 2016

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Genetic Analysis of the Yavapai Native Americans From West-Central Arizona Using the Illumina MiSeq FGx (TM) Forensic Genomics System

Journal

Forensic Science International: Genetics

Date Published

September 2016

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)