[Forensic phenotyping: How far along?]

Abstract excerpt

The prediction of a person's aspect from analysis of an anonymous DNA sample has made significant progress in the last decade. Pigmentation (eyes, hair and, more recently, skin colour) can now be determined with good accuracy; face shape is still not amenable to prediction (except, in general lines, from ancestry). Age can apparently also be determined from methylation profiles. Police forces are, understandably,...

Topics

• Adult
• Ethnicity
• Forensic Genetics
• Genetic Association Studies
• Humans
• Infant, Newborn
• Inheritance Patterns
• Male
• Phenotype
• Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
• Portraits as Topic
• Skin Pigmentation