Introducing the Forensic Genomics Consortium - Research that cracks crime
Forensic genetic research focuses on extracting DNA from biological crime scene samples to help criminal justice professionals identify victims and suspects. The Forensic Genomics Consortium Netherlands was founded in 2008 to take this research to a higher level.
There is still much to gain in this specialised field, as current routine forensic genetic research methods are relatively slow and inefficient. The alliance’s main objective is to develop new forensic genetic research techniques to help solve crime cases.
FGCN Highlights
- Police investigators get busy as DNA-researchers “Puzzling with peaks” huge success at Police Academy
- Suspect's alibi easier to verify: First biological tests to link suspects to time
- New genes involved in human eye color identified
- Test available that predicts eye color
First biological tests to link suspects to time
10 May 2010
It is now possible to ‘read’
at what time of the day biological material collected at a crime scene was deposited there.
Research results published in
the journal International Journal
of Legal Medicine.
Test available that predicts eye color
22 March 2010
The Forensic Molecular Biology department of Erasmus MC
has developed a test that
can predict, based on DNA,
whether a person has blue
or brown eyes.
Improving mixed-stain DNA analyses
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