Aug. 8, 2017
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!
July 18, 2017
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…
June 1, 2017
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…
Jan. 27, 2017
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:
Oct. 3, 2016
The ISFG DNA Commission has published Recommendations on the validation of software programs performing biostatistical calculations for forensic genetics applications .