Definition and purpose -- Mendelian genetics, modes of transmission and genomics -- Evolutionary and population genetics in forensic science -- Probability and likelihood -- Kinship -- Assessing sampling error in DNA evidence -- Thoughts on estimating ancestry -- DNA mixtures -- Types of genomes, sequences and genetic markers -- X chromosome -- Past, present and future of forensic DNA databases -- The Y chromosome haplotype reference database (YHRD) -- The next state-of-the-art forensic genetics technology : massively parallel sequencing -- Massively parallel mitochondrial DNA sequencing in forensic genetics: principles and opportunities -- DNA and missing persons identification : practice, progress, and perspectives -- Molecular autopsy -- Predicting human appearance from DNA for forensic investigations -- Wildlife forensic science -- The application of forensic animal DNA analysis in criminal and civil investigations -- Applications of DNA-based methods in food forensics -- Forensic botany -- Genetic and genomic methods of microbial taxonomic assignment -- Molecular epidemiology and evolution concepts in microbial forensics -- Quality assurance, recommendations and standards.
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