Accurate profiling of forensic autosomal STRs using the Oxford Nanopore Technologies MinION device

CL Hall, RK Kesharwani, NR Phillips, JV Planz… - Forensic Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
The high variability characteristic of short tandem repeat (STR) markers is harnessed for
human identification in forensic genetic analyses. Despite the power and reliability of current …

Nanopore sequencing of a forensic STR multiplex reveals loci suitable for single-contributor STR profiling

O Tytgat, Y Gansemans, J Weymaere, K Rubben… - Genes, 2020 - mdpi.com
Nanopore sequencing for forensic short tandem repeats (STR) genotyping comes with the
advantages associated with massively parallel sequencing (MPS) without the need for a …

Forensic STR profiling using Oxford Nanopore Technologies' MinION sequencer

S Cornelis, S Willems, C Van Neste, O Tytgat… - BioRxiv, 2018 - biorxiv.org
Forensic STR profiling using massively parallel sequencing (MPS) has gained much
attention as an alternative for the traditional capillary electrophoresis (CE) methods. Oxford …

Forensic nanopore sequencing of STRs and SNPs using Verogen's ForenSeq DNA signature prep kit and MinION

ZL Ren, JR Zhang, XM Zhang, X Liu, YF Lin… - International journal of …, 2021 - Springer
The MinION nanopore sequencing device (Oxford Nanopore Technologies, Oxford, UK) is
the smallest commercially available sequencer and can be used outside of conventional …

[HTML][HTML] Nanopore sequencing of a forensic combined STR and SNP multiplex

O Tytgat, S Škevin, D Deforce… - Forensic Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Nanopore sequencing for forensic purposes has gained attention, as it yields added
discriminatory power compared to capillary electrophoresis (CE), without the need for a high …

[PDF][PDF] Potential applications of nanopore sequencing for forensic analysis

CL Hall, RR Zascavage, FJ Sedlazeck… - Forensic science …, 2020 - researchgate.net
DNA evidence has long been considered the gold standard for human identification in
forensic investigations. Forensic genetic analyses may harness the information within …

Short tandem repeat typing on the 454 platform: strategies and considerations for targeted sequencing of common forensic markers

M Scheible, O Loreille, R Just, J Irwin - Forensic Science International …, 2014 - Elsevier
To investigate the feasibility of next generation sequencing technology (NGS) for the
multiplex detection and sequence production of short tandem repeats (STRs) from degraded …

Open-Access Worldwide Population STR Database Constructed Using High-Coverage Massively Parallel Sequencing Data Obtained from the 1000 Genomes Project

TS Frontanilla, G Valle-Silva, J Ayala… - Genes, 2022 - mdpi.com
Achieving accurate STR genotyping by using next-generation sequencing data has been
challenging. To provide the forensic genetics community with a reliable open-access STR …

NanoSTR: A method for detection of target short tandem repeats based on nanopore sequencing data

J Lang, Z Xu, Y Wang, J Sun, Z Yang - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Short tandem repeats (STRs) are widely present in the human genome. Studies have
confirmed that STRs are associated with more than 30 diseases, and they have also been …

Human short tandem repeat identification using a nanopore-based DNA sequencer: a pilot study

M Asogawa, A Ohno, S Nakagawa, E Ochiai… - Journal of Human …, 2020 - nature.com
Short tandem repeats (STRs) are repetitive DNA sequences that are highly polymorphic and
widely used for personal identification in the field of forensic medicine. The standard method …