Microbial forensics is an important part of a strengthened capability to respond to biocrime and bioterrorism incidents to aid in the complex task of distinguishing between natural outbreaks and deliberate acts. The goal of a microbial forensic investigation is to identify and criminally prosecute those responsible for a biological attack, and it involves a detailed analysis of the weapon--that...

The Y chromosome contains the largest nonrecombining block in the human genome. By virtue of its many polymorphisms, it is now the most informative haplotyping system, with applications in evolutionary studies, forensics, medical genetics, and genealogical reconstruction. However, the emergence of several unrelated and nonsystematic nomenclatures for Y-chromosomal binary haplogroups is an incre...

Genomic prediction of future phenotypes or genetic merit using dense SNP genotypes can be used for prediction of disease risk, forensics, and genomic selection of livestock and domesticated plant species. The reliability of genomic predictions is their squared correlation with the true genetic merit and indicates the proportion of the genetic variance that is explained. As reliability relies he...

Dr. Hicks has made an important contribution to forensic psychiatry in an area of scholarly and clinical endeavor where discourse among psychiatry, culture, and the law must ultimately converge. His article ranks as one of most comprehensive statements published thus far in this area in the Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law or its predecessor, the Bulletin of the America...

In India, six landscapes and source populations that are important for long-term conservation of Bengal tigers (Panthera tigris tigris) have been identified. Except for a few studies, nothing is known regarding the genetic structure and extent of gene flow among most of the tiger populations across India as the majority of them are small, fragmented and isolated. Thus, individual-based relation...

Copyright: © 2013 Kshemada K, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Forensic sciences focussed on investigations of unnatural deaths and crimes have indisputably made significant contribution ...

The prediction of externally visible characteristics from DNA has been studied for forensic genetics over the last few years. Externally visible characteristics include hair, skin, and eye color, height, and facial morphology, which have high heritability. Recent studies using genome-wide association analysis have identified genes and variations that correlate with human visible phenotypes and ...

The American Psychiatric Association’s (APA) 2013 publication of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5), marks the first substantial revision of the psychiatric diagnostic classification system since the publication of DSM-III in 1980. In recent decades, significant advances in behavioral science, neuropsychiatry, molecular genetics, neuroimaging, and o...

In recent years, forensic mRNA profiling has increasingly been used to identify the origin of human body fluids. By now, several laboratories have implemented and also use it in criminal casework. 2018 FoRNAP (Forensic RNA Profiling) group was established among a number these with aim sharing experiences, discussing optimization potential, identifying challenges suggesting solutions regards To ...