Othram Maps now includes a powerful global view, dynamic load-on-demand rendering, and keyboard shortcuts, making it a great tool for exploring massive family trees with many to thousands of individuals.
Project 525 is our mission to identify 525 murdered children in NamUs—join us in restoring their names and finding those responsible for their deaths.
The DOJ should prioritize homicides and sex assaults for forensic genetic genealogy but allow unidentified human remains cases with undetermined or pending manners of death to remain eligible for investigation and funding.
From early methods like blood group analysis to modern approaches using massively parallel sequencing, scientists have developed quantitative techniques to measure genetic relationships.
Every detail matters and any detail could be a clue so when you use advanced DNA tools such as biogeographical ancestry analysis, you should expect, and in fact demand, a complete genomic analysis, without shortcuts.
The new MDFI Triangulation tool helps confirm that shared DNA segments between three or more individuals are inherited from a common ancestor, providing stronger evidence of true genetic relationships.
Call rate is an indicator of data quality for microarrays but doesn't mean much for DNA sequencing, and since microarrays are wrong for forensics samples, we need to move past call rates and agree on better quality metrics.
Comparisons between anthropological and genomic ancestry assignments for UHRs reveals significant discordance, shedding light on the challenges in determining population affinity, particularly for admixed populations.
Degradation index is useful for STR typing but irrelevant for SNP testing, especially with modern DNA sequencing, since SNPs can be measured from much shorter DNA fragments than STRs.
