Introducing the Forensic Genomics Consortium - Research that cracks crime
Forensic genetic research focuses on analysing 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 tools to help solving crime cases more effectively.
FGCN Highlights
- What did our ancestors look like? Hair and eye color can be determined from ancient human remains
- Press Release: Looking at you: Face genes identified
- Press Release: DNA test for hair and eye colour now available
- Forensic Genomics Summer School 2012 - a great success!
- Corina Benschop has defended her PhD thesis on optimisation of the research methods
for complex DNA traces
What Did Our Ancestors Look Like?
11 January 2013
A team of researchers from Poland and the Netherlands have now shown that this system is sufficiently robust to successfully work on older and more degraded samples from human remains such as teeth and bones.
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Press release: Looking at You: Face Genes Identified
14 September 2012
Genes found that determine human facial shapes.
read morePress Release: DNA test for hair and eye colour now available
21 August 2012
Hair and eye color of an unknown perpetrator can now be estimated from his/her DNA left behind at the crime scene. Erasmus MC scientists, in collaboration with their Polish and Greek colleagues, have developed the first DNA test system for hair colour prediction that also allows eye colour prediction.
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