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Comparative Evaluation of Massively Parallel Sequencing STR kits with the Emphasis on Mixture Deconvolution Utilizing Probabilistic Genotyping.

15PNIJ-22-GG-03560-SLFO

Open

Funding First Awarded

2022

$297,292

Evaluating the Impact of Dropout and Genotyping Error on SNP-Based Kinship Analysis With Forensic Samples

Date Published

2022

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Proteins, possibly human, found in World War II concentration camp artifact

Date Published

2022

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Technical Modifications for the Application of the Total Difference Method for Frontal Sinus Comparison

Date Published

July 2022

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

A multipurpose panel of microhaplotypes for use with STR markers in casework

Date Published

2022

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Microbiota succession throughout life from the cradle to the grave

Date Published

2022

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Inter-laboratory variation in interpretation of DNA mixtures

2020-R2-CX-0049

Past Project Period End Date

Funding First Awarded

2022

$132,817

Guiding proposition setting in forensic DNA interpretation

Date Published

September 2022

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Microbial succession in human rib skeletal remains and fly-human microbial transfer during decomposition

Date Published

2022

Publication Type

Thesis/Dissertation

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

What’s Possible with Rapid DNA Technology?

August 2022

Series

Justice Today Podcast

NIJ scientist Tracey Johnson joins science writer Sarah Michaud in this episode. They discuss Rapid DNA technology, and Tracey explains the complexities of this technology – its pitfalls and its possibilities.

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Date Published

2021

Publication Type

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Resolution of mitochondrial DNA mixtures using a probe capture next generation sequencing system and phylogenetic-based software

Date Published

July 2021

Publication Type

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Event Dates

August 16, 2022, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Eastern

Location

online

Event Type

Webinar

Registration Status

Open

Persistence of Touch DNA for Forensic Analysis

Date Published

2021

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Can a reference 'match' an evidence profile if these have no loci in common?

Date Published

2021

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Validation of a top-down DNA profile analysis for database searching using a fully continuous probabilistic genotyping model

Date Published

2021

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The transitivity of the Hardy-Weinberg law

Date Published

May 2022

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

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Performing a BLAST search of the STRSeq BioProject

Date Published

December 2017

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

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Investigation into the effect of mixtures comprising related people on non-donor likelihood ratios, and potential practises to mitigate providing misleading opinions

Date Published

July 2022

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

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NIJ-Sponsored

"The devil's in the detail": Release of an expanded, enhanced and dynamically revised forensic STR Sequence Guide

Date Published

May 2018

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

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NIJ-Sponsored

Assessing non-LUS stutter in DNA sequence data

Date Published

July 2022

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

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NIJ-Sponsored

A Continuous Statistical Phasing Framework for the Analysis of Forensic Mitochondrial DNA Mixtures

Date Published

January 2021

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The Evidence We Leave Behind (Part 2)

Date Published

June 2022

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The Evidence We Leave Behind (Part 2)

June 2022

Series

Justice Today Podcast

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