Article
Development and evaluations of the ancestry informative markers of the VISAGE Enhanced Tool for Appearance and Ancestry.
Forensic science international. Genetics - 1 May 2023
Ruiz-Ramírez J, de la Puente M, Xavier C, Ambroa-Conde A, Álvarez-Dios J, Freire-Aradas A, Mosquera-Miguel A, Ralf A, Amory C, Katsara M A, Khellaf T, Nothnagel M, Cheung E Y Y, Gross T E, Schneider P M, Uacyisrael J, Oliveira S, Klautau-Guimarães M D N, Carvalho-Gontijo C, Pośpiech E, Branicki W, Parson W, Kayser M, Carracedo A, Lareu M V, Phillips C
Abstract excerpt
The VISAGE Enhanced Tool for Appearance and Ancestry (ET) has been designed to combine markers for the prediction of bio-geographical ancestry plus a range of externally visible characteristics into a single massively parallel sequencing (MPS) assay. We describe the development of the ancestry panel markers used in ET, and the enhanced analyses they provide compared to previous MPS-based forensic ancestry assays....
Topics
- Humans
- Male
- Genotype
- Haplotypes
- DNA
- Middle East
- DNA Fingerprinting
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
- High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing