This review paper covers the forensic-relevant literature in biological sciences from 2019 to
2022 as a part of the 20th INTERPOL International Forensic Science Managers Symposium …

Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is a small fraction of our hereditary material. However, this
molecule has had an overwhelming presence in scientific research for decades until the …

The maternal mode of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) inheritance is central to human genetics.
Recently, evidence for bi-parental inheritance of mtDNA was claimed for individuals of three …

For the adoption of massively parallel sequencing (MPS) systems by forensic laboratories,
validation studies on specific workflows are needed to support the feasibility of …

Responding to the growing scientific and practical interest in forensic DNA phenotyping, the
VISible Attributes through GEnomics (VISAGE) Consortium was founded in 2017 with the …

Nuclear mitochondrial DNA segments (NUMTs) are generated via transfer of portions of the
mitochondrial genome into the nuclear genome. Given their common origin, there is the …

Forensic mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis conducted using next-generation sequencing
(NGS), also known as massively parallel sequencing (MPS), as compared to Sanger-type …

Motivation Assays in mitochondrial genomics rely on accurate read mapping and variant
calling. However, there are known and unknown nuclear paralogs that have fundamentally …

Immigrants from diverse origins have arrived in Paraguay and produced important
demographic changes in a territory initially inhabited by indigenous Guarani. Few studies …

With the recent advances in next-generation sequencing (NGS), mitochondrial whole-
genome sequencing has begun to be applied to the field of the forensic biology as an …