Genetic Identification Erasmus MC

Over the last years of autosomal chromosomes has been shown to be powerful in estimating a person's chronological & biological in clinical and forensic settings. But we dared to ask - what about a sex-specific age calculator? In this study published yesterday in Aging-US by the Epigenomics team of our Department, we tried for the first time to build an age prediction model based on the tiniest, but still favourite for some 😉, ! Practically, this will eventually allow us to perform age prediction specifically to the male part of a DNA mixture, as often recovered in physical and sexual assault cases. Stay tuned as we now move to more tissues and technologies! 🙌

Aging

We are excited to share with you that our new study on further characterizing the complexity of human , led by our Department and our colleagues from the International Visible Trait Genetics Consortium, has now been published in ! It seems that our study outcomes considerably exceed previous knowledge and expectations, highlighting eye color as a genetically highly complex human trait. Kudos to the entire team!

Genome-wide association study in almost 195,000 individuals identifies 50 previously unidentified genetic loci for eye color Human eye color is highly heritable, but its genetic architecture is not yet fully understood. We report the results of the largest genome-wide association study for eye color to date, involving up to 192,986 European participants from 10 populations. We identify 124 independent associations arising...

What does the future hold for forensics? 🕵️‍♂️🤔

Dr. Athena Vidaki, a postdoc at our Dept, shares her views on this topic in the video interview below, taken place last fall as part of her participation at the 30th International Symposium of Human Identification at Palm Springs in California.

The Future of Forensic Science Athina Vidaki, a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Erasmus Medical Center in the Netherlands discusses the newest technologies and techniques in forensic scienc...

Are you a scientist willing to improve your science communication skills? Or are you curious about what other scientists actually do? 🧬 Come and experience it first hand! Get a chance to meet other scientists and ask them all of your burning questions or improve your science communication skills by answering them! 🗣 You have five minutes ⏳ Go! Drinks and snacks on us 🍻 ❤️
Join us in one of our events that will take place in Rotterdam and Delft (the Netherlands) between January-May 2020.
More information and registration: https://ilabu.erasmusmc.nl

We are very proud that the Head of our Department, Professor Manfred Kayser, is opening the 28th Conference of the International Society for Forensic Genetics with his 2017 Scientific prize lecture!