Handbook of forensic genetics biodiversity and heredity in civil and criminal investigation - Amorim, Antonio; Budowle, Bruce (New Jersey World Scientific, 2017)
Chapter 1. Definition and purpose / Antonio Amorim and Bruce Budowle -- Chapter 2. Mendelian genetics, modes of transmission and genomics / Antonio Amorim -- Chapter 3. Evolutionary and population genetics in forensic science / Qasim Ayub, Marc Haber and Chris Tyler-Smith -- Chapter 4. Probability and likelihood / Amke Caliebe and Michael Krawczak -- Chapter 5. Kinship / Manuel García-Magariños and Thore Egeland -- Chapter 6. Assessing sampling error in DNA evidence / James M. Curran -- Chapter 7. Thoughts on estimating ancestry / Kenneth K. Kidd -- Chapter 8. DNA mixtures / Torben Tvedebrink -- Chapter 9. Types of genomes, sequences and genetic markers / Vânia Pereira and Leonor Gusmão -- Chapter 10. X chromosome / Nádia Pinto -- Chapter 11. Past, present and future of forensic DNA databases / C.P. (Kees) van der Beek -- Chapter 12. The Y-chromosome haplotype reference database (YHRD) : publicly available reference and research datasets for the forensic interpretaiton of Y-chromosome STR profiles / Lutz Rower -- Chapter 13. The next state-of-the art forensic genetics technology : massively parallel sequencing / Bruce Budowle, Jennifer D. Churchill and Jonathan L. King -- Chapter 14. Massively parallel mitochondrial DNA sequencing in forensic genetics: principles and opportunities / Jodi A. Irwin, Rebecca S. Just and Walther Parson -- Chapter 15. DNA and missing persons identification : practice, progress, and perspectives / Thomas J. Parsons and René L.M. Huel -- Chapter 16. Molecular autopsy / Antti Sajantila and Bruce Budowle -- Chapter 17. Predicting human appearance from DNA for forensic investigations / Susan Walsh and Manfred Kayser -- Chapter 18. Wildlife forensic science / Adrian Linacre and Sherryn A. Ciavaglia -- Chapter 19. The application of forensic animal DNA analysis in criminal and civil investigations / Robert Oldt, Jillian Ng and Sree Kanthaswamy -- Chapter 20. Applications of DNA-based methods in food forensics / Ricardo Araújo, Filipe Pereira and Barbara van Asch -- Chapter 21. Forensic botany / Kayla Baylor and Heather Miller-Coyle -- Chapter 22. Genetic and genomic methods of microbial taxonomic assignment / Marc W. Allard, Mark Wilson and Eric W. Brown -- Chapter 23. Molecular epidemiology and evolution concepts in microbial forensics / Fernando Gonzá.ez-Candelas -- Chapter 24. Quality assurance, recommendations and standards / Ingo Bastisch.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Forensic genetics