Methods in Molecular Biology

1. Collection of Samples for DNA Analysis Roland A.H. van Oorschot, Timothy J. Verdon, and Kaye N. Ballantyne 2. Body Fluid Identification Using mRNA Profiling Amy D. Roeder and Cordula Haas 3. mRNA Profiling for Vaginal Fluid and Menstrual Blood Identification Joanna Jakubowska, Agnieszka Maciejewska, and Ryszard Pawlowski 4. Preservation of and DNA Extraction from Muscle Tissue Dennis McNevin 5. DNA Extraction: Organic and Solid-Phase Wafa Ibrahim 6. Extraction of DNA from Skeletal Remains Suni M. Edson and Timothy P. McMahon 7. Extraction of DNA from Human Skeletal Material Irena Zupanic Pajnic 8. The Development and Use of Internal Amplification Controls (IACs) with DNA Profiling Kits for Forensic DNA Analysis Nathalie Zahra and William Goodwin 9. NucleoSpin (R)XS Columns for DNA Concentration and Clean-Up William R. Hudlow 10. Purification of PCR Products to Improve STR Profiles Amy D. Roeder 11. Analysis of 30 Biallelic INDEL Markers Using the Investigator DIPplex (R) Kit Majid Bashir and Nur Haliza Bt Hassan 12. Analysis of Mitochondrial Control Region Using Sanger Sequencing David Ballard 13. Whole Human Mitochondrial DNA Sequencing Igor V. Ovchinnikov, Mathew J. Malek, Katelyn Kjelland, and Kenneth Drees 14. In-Solution Hybridization for the Targeted Enrichment of the Whole Mitchondrial Genome B. Bekaert, R. Ellerington, L. Van den Abbeele, and R. Decorte 15. Enhanced DNA Profiling of the Semen Donor in Late Reported Sexual Assaults: Use of Y-Chromosome Targeted Pre-Amplification and Next Generation Y-STR Amplification Systems Erin K. Hanson and Jack Ballantyne 16. Analysis of Rapidly Mutating Y Chromosome Short Tandem Repeats (RM Y STRs) Sibte Hadi 17. A Practical Guide to the HIrisPlex System: Simultaneous Prediction of Eye and Hair Color from DNA Susan Walsh and Manfred Kayser 18. Inference of Ancestry in Forensic Analysis I: Autosomal Ancestry - Informative Marker Sets Chris Phillips, Carla Santos, Manuel Fondevilla, Angel Carracedo, and Maria Victoria Lareu 19. Inference of Ancestry in Forensic Analysis II: Analysis of Genetic Data Carla Santos, Chris Phillips, A. Gomez-Tato, J. Alvarez-Dios, Angel Carracedo, Maria Victoria Lareu 20. Species Determination: The Role and Use of the Cytochrome b Gene Adrian Linacre and James Chun-I Lee