Handbook of forensic genetics
Subtitle: biodiversity and heredity in civil and criminal investigation
By: Antonio Amorim & Bruce Budowle
Contributors: Budowle, Bruce, 1953- , author
Series: Security science and technology -- volume 2; Security science and technology -- v. 2.
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New Jersey
Language: eng
Number of pages: 652
ISBN-13: 9781786340771
Subjects: Forensic Genetics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Definition and purpose; title: Mendelian genetics, modes of transmission and genomics; title: Evolutionary and population genetics in forensic science; title: Probability and likelihood; title: Kinship; title: Assessing sampling error in DNA evidence; title: Thoughts on estimating ancestry; title: DNA mixtures; title: Types of genomes, sequences and genetic markers; title: X chromosome; title: Past, present and future of forensic DNA databases; title: The Y chromosome haplotype reference database (YHRD); title: The next state-of-the-art forensic genetics technology : massively parallel sequencing; title: Massively parallel mitochondrial DNA sequencing in forensic genetics: principles and opportunities; title: DNA and missing persons identification : practice, progress, and perspectives; title: Molecular autopsy; title: Predicting human appearance from DNA for forensic investigations; title: Wildlife forensic science; title: The application of forensic animal DNA analysis in criminal and civil investigations; title: Applications of DNA-based methods in food forensics; title: Forensic botany; title: Genetic and genomic methods of microbial taxonomic assignment; title: Molecular epidemiology and evolution concepts in microbial forensics; title: Quality assurance, recommendations and standards.