Noninvasive genetic approaches continue to improve studies in molecular ecology,
conservation genetics and related disciplines such as forensics and epidemiology …

Short tandem repeats are the gold standard for human identification but are not informative
for forensic DNA phenotyping (FDP). Single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) as genetic …

Y-chromosomal haplogroups assigned from male-specific Y-chromosomal single nucleotide
polymorphisms (Y-SNPs) allow paternal lineage identification and paternal bio-geographic …

The Handbook of Forensic Drug Analysis is a comprehensive chemical and analytic
reference for the forensic analysis of illicit drugs. With chapters written by leading …

A consensus on Bantu-speaking populations being genetically similar has emerged in the
last few years, but the demographic scenarios associated with their dispersal are still a …

Due to their strategic geographic location between three different continents, Sicily and
Southern Italy have long represented a major Mediterranean crossroad where different …

Studying the Y chromosomes of indigenous tribes of Ecuador revealed a lack of strategic
SNP assays to examine the substructure of South American native populations. In most …

The Y chromosome is paternally inherited and therefore serves as an evolutionary marker of
patrilineal descent. Worldwide DNA variation within the non-recombining portion of the Y …

In the present study, a set of 13 Y-chromosomal single nucleotide polymorphisms (Y-SNPs)
selected for the identification of the most frequent Asian Y-haplogroups was included in an …

The Italian peninsula, given its geographical location in the middle of the Mediterranean
basin, was involved in the process of the peopling of Europe since the very beginning, with …