Progress in Forensic Genetics : Proceedings of the 17th International ISFH Congress, Oslo, Norway, 2-6 September 1997 - No.7

Hardbound. The genetic markers now used in problems of identification; such as parentage testing and forensics, have moved almost exclusively from the classical protein markers, known collectively as blood groups, to variation polymorphisms directly detectable in the DNA.

Moreover, the extensive knowledge and application of VNTR polymorphisms detected using firstly multilocus probe and then single locus probe technology, has now been largely replaced by polymorphisms detected using PCR technology which can utilize far less material and degraded DNA.In this volume it can be seen that the general focus of the forensic science community seems to have gradually turned over the last two years from the investigation of new autosomal markers and population databases, to accelerating exploitation of modern technology and informative new markers in forensics casework.

There is no obvious increasing interest in the polymorphism displayed by mtDNA, in Y-chrom