DNA results may only take you so far. When a case does not yield a CODIS hit or a match to a known suspect’s DNA profile, forensic genealogy can assist your case and provide you with new leads. We can process evidence from homicides, sexual assaults, violent crimes, unidentified remains and products of conception. We have over 15 years of experience processing evidence from difficult samples from cold cases, bones and degraded samples.
We have an in-house Genealogy Team that works closely with you to help find the person(s) of interest by building out a family tree utilizing public DNA databases. Our expert Genealogist and DNA Analysts have extensive experience working evidence and cases for forensic genealogy.
Forensic Genealogy utilizes SNPs (or Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms) for analysis. It may be possible to perform SNP testing on your existing DNA extracts!
We evaluate your case to see if you can utilize your existing DNA extracts by assessing the amount & quality of DNA present. If the DNA extracts are not suitable or if there are no DNA extracts available, then we will determine the additional evidence testing we can perform to attain enough DNA for SNPs.
Forenseq™ Kintelligence is the only kit designed with forensic samples in mind, human-specific, and uses 10,230 SNP markers designed specifically for forensic genetic genealogy. It is ideal for crime scene evidence that resulted in limited amounts of DNA to conduct SNP testing utilized for forensic genealogy.
NGS is a massively parallel second-generation sequencing technology that is high throughput and fast. It is more sensitive and can even be used to develop phenotyping markers like hair and eye color with SNP testing. This data will provide investigative leads which will allow an agency to narrow down a suspect pool fast!
The ForenSeq Signature Prep Kit can be used to develop an autosomal, Y-DNA, and X-DNA STRs simultaneously with SNP data. All of this information is gained with the same amount of DNA previously needed for an autosomal STR profile alone!
Targeted testing will transform how to solve cases with difficult DNA evidence like bones and degraded DNA that have not yielded a CODIS hit or a match to known DNA profile. Whole Genome Mitochondrial testing finishes out the new suite of tools DNA Labs International has implemented on the Miseq™ platform.
Cost-effective, accurate results and a successful outcome all start with how you submit your casework.
Make the submission process easier by following these four simple steps and you’ll have your analysis in no time.
