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Solving Unidentified Remains and Serious Crime Cases – The Power of NGS and FIGG

Speakers: Nicola Oldroyd-Clark, Laurence Devesse and Sharon Goh
Date: 8:30-12:30, Monday, September 11, 2023

Location: Room: Pullman 4&5; PULLMAN KUALA LUMPUR CITY CENTRE, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Description:
Next-generation sequencing (NGS) offers new hope for unsolved cases whether past or present. One of the many benefits afforded by NGS technology is the ability to analyze thousands of markers instead of tens of markers using short SNPs. Short SNPs are the amplicons ideally suited to recovering information from badly degraded samples. These new developments for missing persons projects will streamline comparisons between human remains and reference samples and reach more distant relatives than previously possible. In addition, Forensic Investigative Genetic Genealogy (FIGG) is uniquely enabled by NGS. This emerging application can provide leads for unsolved serious crime cases by reaching for missing persons beyond reference sample collections and beyond STRs.

Our workshop will explore the complete QIAGEN-Verogen workflow for missing persons and serious crime cases – from extracting high quality material from difficult bone samples to local and cloud-based computing platforms for identifying relatives of persons of interests. The workshop includes a mix of lectures and interactive demo sections and is an opportunity for debate, discussion and exploration of the power of NGS and FIGG.