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Aug. 8, 2017

ISFG 2017 Seoul: Mobile Conference App!

The ISFG congress 2017 is going digital: a mobile app has been created by the organizing committee to keep track of the schedule, and to allow live questions from the auditorium after the oral presentations!

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July 18, 2017

X-STR guidelines published by ISFG DNA Commission

The ISFG DNA Commission has published guidelines and recommendations on the use of X-STR markers. Linkage and linkage disequilibrium (association of alleles) are of special importance for such evaluations and these concepts and the implications for likelihood calculations are de…

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June 1, 2017

Forensic genetics research project VISAGE kicks off

The EU Horizon 2020 funded VISAGE Project was launched with its kick-off meeting on May 30/31 2017 at the Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The VIS ible A ttributes Through GE nomics (VISAGE) Consortium will establish new scientific knowledge, develop…

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Jan. 27, 2017

Making Sense of Forensic Genetics

The EUROFORGEN Network of Excellence has published in collaboration with the UK charity Sense about Science a guide for the wider public, the police and judiciary on "Making Sense of Forensic Genetics". The 38-page booklet is available for downloading here:

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Oct. 3, 2016

DNA Commission on software validation

The ISFG DNA Commission has published Recommendations on the validation of software programs performing biostatistical calculations for forensic genetics applications .

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