The increasingly arcane world of DNA profiling demands that those needing to understand at least some of it must find a source of reliable and understandable information. Combining material from the successful Wiley Encyclopedia of Forensic Science with newly commissioned and updated material, the Editors have used their own extensive experience in criminal casework across the world to compile an informative guide that will provide knowledge and thought-provoking articles of interest to anyone involved or interested in the use of DNA in the forensic context.
Following extensive introductory chapters covering forensic DNA profiling and forensic genetics, this comprehensive volume presents a substantial breadth of material covering:
- Fundamental material - including sources of DNA, validation, and accreditation
- Analysis and interpretation - including, extraction, quantification, amplification and interpretation of electropherograms (epgs)
- Evaluation - including mixtures, low template, and transfer
- Applications - databases, paternity and kinship, mitochondrial-DNA, wildlife DNA, single-nucleotide polymorphism, phenotyping and familial searching
- Court - report writing, discovery, cross examination, and current controversies
With contributions from leading experts across the whole gamut of forensic science, this volume is intended to be authoritative but not authoritarian, informative but comprehensible, and comprehensive but concise. It will prove to be a valuable addition, and useful resource, for scientists, lawyers, teachers, criminologists, and judges.
About the Author: Professor Allan Jamieson, co-Editor in Chief of the Wiley Encyclopedia of Forensic Science, has an extensive and detailed career history in forensic biology and genetics. Professor Jamieson is currently a visiting Professor of Forensic Sciences at Staffordshire University and is also a DNA expert at the Institute of Forensic Sciences. Professor Jamieson has provided written and oral evidence and advice in over 1000 criminal cases in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, USA, New Zealand, Cyprus and Australia and has published many papers in peer-reviewed publications such as Science & Justice and Forensic Science International. Professor Jamieson is a Chartered Biologist and is a Fellow of the Society of Biology.
Dr Scott Bader has conducted research in the molecular genetics and cell biology of cancer for over 20 years at several institutions in the United States (including the University of California, National Institutes of Health and the University of Texas), as well as in the United Kingdom (at the University of Edinburgh). Dr Bader has published more than 30 academic research papers, and has reviewed a number of research manuscripts and grant application proposals throughout his career in academia. For approximately the last six years, Dr Bader has been a consultant scientist at The Forensic Institute, doing forensic science casework as well as providing seminars to lawyers. Dr Bader has been a part-time lecturer in Forensic Science Evidence Evaluation at the University of Edinburgh and is currently a Fellow of the Society of Biology.
