Highlights
- •The ParaDNA Intelligence Test is a novel STR profiling kit for rapid DNA profiling.
- •We analysed 381 individuals with ParaDNA Intelligence Test and AmpFlSTR SGM Plus.
- •We describe the high level of concordance demonstrated between the two systems.
- •99.8% of ParaDNA Intelligence Test alleles were concordant with AmpFlSTR SGM Plus.
- •The likelihood of an adventitious match was estimated at approximately 1 in 2.7 × 106.
Abstract
The ParaDNA® Intelligence Test enables STR profiling directly from human biological samples and
evidence items collected from crime scene in 75 min. Designed for non-expert use this system allows DNA information to be available
to investigators before it would typically be available from a laboratory. The ParaDNA
Intelligence Test system amplifies D3S1358, D8S119, D16S539, D18S1358 and TH01 STR
loci and the gender typing locus amelogenin and detects the alleles present with HyBeacon® probes. Individual DNA samples from 381 UK Caucasian individuals were analysed using
AmpFlSTR® SGM Plus® and the ParaDNA Intelligence Test with the derived STR profiles compared. Here we
describe the high level of concordance demonstrated between the two systems and discuss
this with reference to allele frequencies and the discriminatory power offered by
the ParaDNA Intelligence Test.
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: December 11, 2014
Accepted:
December 9,
2014
Received in revised form:
November 13,
2014
Received:
May 29,
2014
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