First all-in-one diagnostic tool for DNA intelligence: Genome-wide inference of biogeographic ancestry, appearance, relatedness, and sex with the Identitas v1 Forensic Chip

International Journal of Legal Medicine

Volumn 127, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 559-572

  Keating, Brendan ^a   Bansal, Aruna T ^b   Walsh, Susan ^c   Millman, Jonathan ^d   Newman, Jonathan ^d   Kidd, Kenneth ^e   Budowle, Bruce ^f   Eisenberg, Arthur ^f   Donfack, Joseph ^g   Gasparini, Paolo ^h   Budimlija, Zoran ⁱ   Henders, Anjali K ^j   Chandrupatla, Hareesh ^k   Duffy, David L ^j   Gordon, Scott D ^j   Hysi, Pirro ^l   Liu, Fan ^c   Medland, Sarah E ^j   Rubin, Laurence ^b   Martin, Nicholas G ^j   Spector, Timothy D ^l   Kayser, Manfred ^c   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Identitas Inc   (United States)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services Centre of Forensic Sciences   (Canada)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^g Federal Bureau of Investigation   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

ⁱ Office of Chief Medical Examiner New York   (United States)

^j ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^k Anjin Solutions   (United States)

^l KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

Ancestry; DNA intelligence; Eye color; Forensic DNA phenotyping; Hair color; Kinship; Prediction; Relatedness; Sex; SNP

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRY GROUP; DNA FINGERPRINTING; EVALUATION STUDY; EYE COLOR; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FORENSIC GENETICS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HAIR COLOR; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; PROCEDURES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL MODEL; ARTICLE; METHODOLOGY; RACE;

CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; EYE COLOR; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FORENSIC GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HAIR COLOR; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD;

EID: 84877873104     PISSN: 09379827     EISSN: 14371596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00414-012-0788-1     Document Type: Article

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