Time: Spring 2009
Location: TBA
Instructor: J. Kinser
Text: J. M. Butler, Forensic DNA Typing, Second Edition: Biology, Technology, and Genetics of STR Markers, Elsevier, 2nd Edition.
This course is an introduction to human identification use forensic DNA profiles. This course will encapsulate laboratory processes of extracting DNA information and explore the statistics of identification within large populations. To enhance this course a new simulation tool will be used to provide students with hands-on scenarios.
Students should have a basic knowledge of statistics.
Preliminary Information
Introduction to the Tir Ebensëa simulation
A Crime Scenario
Short Tandem Repeats
Solving a scenario with STRs
Review of Pertinent Statistics
Computational Tools: Spreadsheets and Databases
Population Sampling
mtDNA
Migration Studies and Simulation
Phylogenetic Trees
Missing Persons
YSTR
Complications: degraded DNA, mixtures