Presentations - 2013 Melbourne

Plenary lectures

Forensic DNA: a story of scientific serendipity

Inaugural lecture by Sir Alec Jeffreys

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A paradigm shift in DNA interpretation

John Buckleton

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The changing face of body fluid indentification

Sally Ann Harbison

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Basic Principles in Forensic DNA Evidence Interpretation (organized by J. Butler)

Presenters: J. Butler, M. Coble, D. Taylor, J. Buckleton, J. Bright, P. Gill

Data interpretation: stutter, PHR, number of contributors

J. Butler

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Validation and thresholds

M. Coble

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Hardy Weinberg equilibrium, allele frequencies, genotype probabilities, confidence intervals, databases, linkage

D. Taylor

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Statistical approaches: finish with LRs being introduced

M. Coble

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Mixture Examples: review Clayton et al 1998 rules

J. Butler

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DNA mixtures (2-person) with LRs

J. Buckleton

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Approaches to handling complex mixtures

J. Bright

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ISFG DNA commission recommendations

P. Gill

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Advanced Topics in Forensic DNA Evidence Interpretation

Presenters: P. Gill, J. Bright, D. Taylor, M. Coble, J. Butler

ISFG DNA commission recommendations

P. Gill

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Modelling peak and stutter heights, degradation, locus effects

J. Bright

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Introduction to the LRmix program of the Forensim R package

P. Gill

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Continuous systems and their implementation

D. Taylor

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Mixture Examples: using the continuous model

J. Bright

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Probabilistic genotyping (STRmix, TrueAllele)

M. Coble

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Implementation considerations with continuous systems

D. Taylor

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Comparison of the methods (strengths and limitations)

J. Butler

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Linear Markers

Presenter: Lutz Roewer

YHRD – big data for the statistical interpretation of Y profiles in forensics and ancestry testing

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Statistics with Y-STR Haplotypes

Presenter: John Buckleton

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DNA Lineage marker Interpretation

Presenters: Walther Parson, Alex Röck

The phylogenetic signature of mtDNA haplotypes

Walther Parson

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EMMA - Estimating mitochondrial DNA haplogroups using a maximum likelihood approach

Alexander Röck

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