May 2020

Editorial Board
Published in issue: May 2020
102284

Original papers

Estimation of Y haplotype frequencies with lower order dependencies
• Mikkel Meyer Andersen,
• Amke Caliebe,
• Katrine Kirkeby,
• Maria Knudsen,
• Ninna Vihrs,
• James M. Curran
Published online: December 24, 2019
102214

Developmental validation of the monSTR identity panel, a forensic STR multiplex assay for massively parallel sequencing
• Janine Silvery,
• Sebastian Ganschow,
• Peter Wiegand,
• Carsten Tiemann
Published online: January 14, 2020
102236

A compilation of tri-allelic SNPs from 1000 Genomes and use of the most polymorphic loci for a large-scale human identification panel
• C. Phillips,
• J. Amigo,
• A.O. Tillmar,
• ...
• Y. Wang,
• T.J. Parsons,
• M.V. Lareu
Published online: January 17, 2020
102232
Open Access

The contribution of DNA databases for stored sexual crimes evidences in the central of Brazil
• Nígela Rodrigues Carvalho,
• Grasielly de Oliveira Lázaro Arão,
• Yanna Andressa Ramos Lima,
• Neide Maria de Oliveira Godinho,
• Mariana Flavia Mota,
• Thaís Cidália Vieira Gigonzag
Published online: January 17, 2020
102235

The double-swab technique versus single swabs for human DNA recovery from various surfaces
• Johannes Hedman,
• Linda Jansson,
• Yasmine Akel,
• ...
• Rebecca Gutierrez Liljestrand,
• Christina Forsberg,
• Ricky Ansell
Published online: January 24, 2020
102253

Development and application of a nonbinary SNP-based microhaplotype panel for paternity testing involving close relatives
• Shule Sun,
• Ying Liu,
• Jienan Li,
• ...
• Hao Yu,
• Jifeng Cai,
• Lagabaiyila Zha
Published online: January 24, 2020
102255
DNA database matches: A p versus np problem
• R.W.J. Meester,
• K. Slooten
Published online: December 31, 2019
102229

An improved process for the collection and DNA analysis of fired cartridge cases
• Todd W. Bille,
• Glenn Fahrig,
• Steven M. Weitz,
• Greg A. Peiffer
Published online: January 18, 2020
102238

Analysis of complex DNA mixtures using massively parallel sequencing of SNPs with low minor allele frequencies
• Martha S. Petrovick,
• Tara Boettcher,
• Philip Fremont-Smith,
• ...
• Darrell O. Ricke,
• James Watkins,
• Eric Schwoebel
Published online: January 17, 2020
102234

Successful STR amplification of post-blast IED samples by fluorescent visualisation and direct PCR
• Belinda Martin,
• Piyamas Kanokwongnuwut,
• Duncan Taylor,
• K. Paul Kirkbride,
• David Armitt,
• Adrian Linacre
Published online: January 29, 2020
102256

Forensic validation of a SNP and INDEL panel for individualisation of timber from bigleaf maple (Acer macrophyllum Pursch)
• E.E. Dormontt,
• D.I. Jardine,
• K.-J. van Dijk,
• ...
• S. Tobe,
• A. Linacre,
• A.J. Lowe
Published online: January 24, 2020
102252
Forensically relevant phylogeographic evaluation of mitogenome variation in the Basque Country
• Óscar García,
• Santos Alonso,
• Nicole Huber,
• Martin Bodner,
• Walther Parson
Published online: February 06, 2020
102260

Paternal and maternal mutations in X-STRs: A GHEP-ISFG collaborative study
• Nádia Pinto,
• Vânia Pereira,
• Carmen Tomas,
• ...
• Cecilia Bobillo,
• Maria Gabriela García,
• Leonor Gusmão
Published online: February 05, 2020
102258

Epigenetic age signatures in bones
• Hwan Young Lee,
• Sae Rom Hong,
• Ji Eun Lee,
• ...
• Jan Fleckhaus,
• Sang-Eun Jung,
• Yang Han Lee
Published online: February 09, 2020
102261

A top-down approach to DNA mixtures
• Klaas Slooten
Published online: February 05, 2020
102250

How to choose sets of ancestry informative markers: A supervised feature selection approach
• Peter Pfaffelhuber,
• Franziska Grundner-Culemann,
• Veronika Lipphardt,
• Franz Baumdicker
Published online: February 15, 2020
102259

An empirical investigation into the effectiveness of genetic genealogy to identify individuals in the UK
• Jim Thomson,
• Tim Clayton,
• John Cleary,
• ...
• Debbie Kennett,
• Michelle Leonard,
• Donna Rutherford
Published online: February 24, 2020
102263
Explaining sudden infant death with cardiac arrhythmias: Complete exon sequencing of nine cardiac arrhythmia genes in Dutch SIDS cases highlights new and known DNA variants
• Germaine Liebrechts-Akkerman,
• Fan Liu,
• Ronald van Marion,
• Winand N.M. Dinjens,
• Manfred Kayser
Published online: February 27, 2020
102266

Pairwise kinship testing with a combination of STR and SNP loci
• Qingzhen Zhang,
• Zhe Zhou,
• Lei Wang,
• ...
• Liyan Liu,
• Yacheng Liu,
• Shengqi Wang
Published online: February 25, 2020
102265

Illuminating touch deposits through cellular characterization of hand rinses and body fluids with nucleic acid fluorescence
• Julia Burrill,
• Barbara Daniel,
• Nunzianda Frascione
Published online: March 04, 2020
102269

Title: Developmental validation of Y-SNP pedigree tagging system: A panel via quick ARMS PCR
• Caiyong Yin,
• Yijie Ren,
• Atif Adnan,
• ...
• Xingjun Qin,
• Shilin Li,
• Li Jin
Published online: March 04, 2020
102271

DNA transfer to worn upper garments during different activities and contacts: An inter-laboratory study
• Bianca Szkuta,
• Ricky Ansell,
• Lina Boiso,
• ...
• Louise G. McKenna,
• Kristy Steensma,
• Roland A.H. van Oorschot
Published online: March 04, 2020
102268

Forensic Population Genetics Original papers

Reconstructing full and partial STR profiles from severely burned human remains using comparative ancient and forensic DNA extraction techniques
• M.V. Emery,
• K. Bolhofner,
• S. Winingear,
• ...
• J.E. Buikstra,
• L.C. Fulginiti,
• A.C. Stone
Published online: March 04, 2020
102272

Short communications

The evaluation of seven age-related CpGs for forensic purpose in blood from Chinese Han population
• Chao Pan,
• Shaohua Yi,
• Chao Xiao,
• Yujie Huang,
• Xiaoying Chen,
• Daixin Huang
Published online: January 24, 2020
102251

Taxonomic classification and abundance estimation using 16S and WGS—A comparison using controlled reference samples
• Lusine Khachatryan,
• Rick H. de Leeuw,
• Margriet E.M. Kraakman,
• ...
• Hailiang Mei,
• Peter de Knijff,
• Jeroen F.J. Laros
Published online: February 05, 2020
102257
Open Access
Spanish allele and haplotype database for 32 X-chromosome Insertion-Deletion polymorphisms
• Cláudia Gomes,
• José David Quintero-Brito,
• Jesús Martínez-Gómez,
• ...
• Victor José Esteban-Ramos,
• Bernardo Perea-Pérez,
• Eduardo Arroyo-Pardo
Published online: February 13, 2020
102262

Case reports

Whole-genome sequencing of human remains to enable genealogy DNA database searches – A case report
• Andreas Tillmar,
• Peter Sjölund,
• Bo Lundqvist,
• Therese Klippmark,
• Cajsa Älgenäs,
• Henrik Green
Published online: January 17, 2020
102233

Forensic Population Genetics short communications

FrogAncestryCalc: A standalone batch likelihood computation tool for ancestry inference panels catalogued in FROG-kb
• Haseena Rajeevan,
• Usha Soundararajan,
• Andrew J. Pakstis,
• Kenneth K. Kidd
Published online: January 21, 2020
102237
Open Access

Letters to the editor

Does Bonferroni correction “rescue” the deviation from Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium?
• Ziwei Ye,
• Zheng Wang,
• Yiping Hou
Published online: January 24, 2020
102254
Attribution of non-convoluted peaks in human STR markers and its possible microbial connection
• Hirak Ranjan Dash
Published online: February 13, 2020
102264
Allele frequency data for 23 Y-chromosome short tandem repeats (STRs) for the South African population
• Kate Megan Reid,
• Laura Jane Heathfield
Published online: March 04, 2020
102270
Maternal uniparental disomy of chromosome 4 indicated by allele copy number of short tandem repeats
• Qiu-Ling Liu,
• Wei-Wei Wu,
• Hu Zhao,
• Hai-Lun Nan,
• De-Jian Lu
Published online: March 06, 2020
102273
Education and training for the judiciary: The Spanish initiative
• L. Prieto,
• A. Alonso,
• A. Carracedo
Published online: March 04, 2020
102267