Monozygotic twins can be co-identified by genotyping of short tandem repeats (STRs);
however, for distinguishing them, STR genotyping is ineffective, especially in the case of …

Individual commercially available kits exhibit limited discrimination power in full-sibling and
second-degree kinship analysis, and therefore they are commonly combined with other kits …

We report the interpretation of three-person mixed DNA profiles constructed from DNA from
one mother, father, and child trio using the probabilistic genotyping software STRmix™. A …

_Dear Editor_ We highly welcome the development of innovative approaches that help
differentiate between monozygotic (MZ) twins based on DNA evidence in forensic casework …

Accurate determination of same-sex twin zygosity is important for medical, scientific and
personal reasons. Determination may be based upon questionnaire data, blood group …

This report demonstrates the limits of DNA identification when siblings are involved. The
Israeli DNA database routinely amplifies suspects samples using the PowerPlex® ESI16 …

Complex kinship identification such as half-sibling identification is a difficult task in forensic
biology Here we represented an approach in dealing with half-sisters from different mothers …

Monozygotic (MZ) twins are typically indistinguishable via forensic DNA profiling. Recently,
we demonstrated that epigenetic differentiation of MZ twins is feasible; however, proportions …

Aim To use a virtually simulated population, generated from published allele frequencies
based on 15 short tandem repeats (STR), to evaluate the efficacy of trio sibship testing and …

The classical twin study has been a powerful heuristic in biomedical, psychiatric and
behavioural research for decades. Twin registries worldwide have collected biological …