Greg Hampikian DNA
Links for Students
LINKS ARE NOT AN ENDORSEMENT OR
VALIDATION OF LINKED MATERIAL, listed for research purposes only
Video:
Dr. Hampikian
Appearance on Public TV:11/16/2006
"DNA"
Radio:
Calvin
Johnson on NPR 2.27.07
Testing Labs-for forensics and genealogy
Trials-courts
On-Line Graduate Degree Program in Forensic Science from Univ. of Florida
FORENSIC DNA
For educated beginners (law
enforcement, lawyers, college students)
A good PowerPoint at the top of the page
from the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
http://www.cstl.nist.gov/div831/strbase/intro.htm
Greg's Powerpoint-Nuclear
STR DNA
Greg's
Mitochondria-Pdf
Good places learn about forensic DNA
President's DNA Initiative: free training modules for law enforcement about
DNA evidence Free On-line course
Direct link to
Training modules
Short Tandem Repeat
Internet Database: great for learning: PowerPoint's, database stats
Good places to wander and browse
Interpol: pdf of
presentations on a number of subjects
European Network of Forensic Science Institutes:
Free registration, STR database searches, best practices documents
American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors (ASCLD)
American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS)
Senior
Managers Australian and New Zealand Forensic Laboratories (SMANZFL)
CODIS Combined DNA
Index System, national DNA database
TESTING LABS
SERI
Serological
Research Institute, Richmond, CA, ASCLD/LAB® accredited, non-profit
lab, offers DNA testing and accreditation services
Orchid Cellmark-Cassie Johnson and Greg
Hampikian presented at the Innocence Network meeting 2007, ASCLD/LAB®
accredited
Mitotyping
Technologies, ASCLD/LAB®
accredited
Reliagene-New Orleans, ASCLD/LAB®
accredited
Family Tree-Specializes in
genealogy, great site
DNA Heritage
Master Class-information and speculation about human migrations
Forensic Science Associates-Ed Blake, a
pioneer and still one of the best
DeCode Genetics
personal genome
STATE LABS
Oregon
FORENSIC SCIENCE AND LAW
Kruglick's Forensic Resource and Criminal Law Search site. Great for
lawyers and those interested in both science and legal matters:
http://www.bioforensics.com/kruglaw
Human Genetics International Laws on
cloning:
Genetics and Public Policy Center
phg foundation:
Genetics News
Top Journals
Forensic Science
Legal Medicine
Forensic Sci Int.
Forensic Science International (Genetics)
Forensic and legal medicine [?Journal of forensic and legal
medicine]
Science and Justice
California Association of Criminalists
newsletter
DNA Admissibility
The Denver DA maintains a great site:
http://www.denverda.org
Worldwide DNA legislation
http://www.dnaresource.info
State DNA Statutes
http://www.aslme.org/dna_04/grid/index.php
American Society of Law, Medicine &
Ethics: http://www.aslme.org
Debate (audio) on collecting DNA from
arrestees:
http://www.justicetalking.org/viewprogram.asp?progID=582
SUPPLIERS of other forensic and
police equipment
Lynn Peavey Company-traditional
fingerprints, evidence collection, police equipment
FOR EXPERTS ONLY
MIX05
Try your hand at interpreting cases from NIST 2005 (need analysis software)
Y STR
Calculator
Quantitative PCR explained by
Vallone
On-line STR calculations:
http://www.cstl.nist.gov/div831/strbase/populationdata.htm Download
OmniPop, very simple!
Canadian Random Match Calculator:
http://www.csfs.ca/pplus/profiler.htm
Free DNA MIXTURE program from Forensic Bioinformatics:
http://www.bioforensics.com/genostat/index.html
DNAMix Bruce
Weir-Liklihood Ratios Calcualtor
TRIAL WATCHING
Ada County Court Calendar
Court TV
Dr. Hampikian's Book: Exit to Freedom: Firsthand account
of exoneration by Calvin Johnson and Greg Hampikian
NPR Link
Amazon.com
INNOCENCE PROJECT STORIES
*New
York Times audio portraits from Nov. 25, 2007
http://www.neworleanscitybusiness.com/viewStory.cfm?recID=19259NY
IP
"Better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer," 2 says English jurist William Blackstone. An excellent paper on this ancient axiom, and its permutations.
OTHER ISSUES
NAPC
National Association of Prosecutor Coordinators
NLADA
library: For defense lawyers only
Eyewitness Testimony
Sol Fulero
True
Witness
False
Confessions
Sol Fulero
Richard Leo
Child Abuse
Statistics
Child Abuse Advocacy
Prevent Child Abuse America
False Allegations of Child Abuse
NCADRC
National Child Abuse Defense and Resource Center
FAST
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MITOCHONDRIAL
DNA
Mitomap-everything mitochondrial
mtDB-Uppsala University database of
polymorphisms
FBI
Mitochondrial database-download their database
John Butler's
Mitochondrial NIST site
Sorenson Database: Y and Mito
PAPERS:
DNA Human origins and migrations: review
Nature Reviews Genetics 7, 669-680 (September 2006)
"Reconstructing human origins in the genomic era",
Daniel Garrigan and Michael F. Hammer
Major genomic mitochondrial lineages delineate early human
expansions, Nicole Maca-Meyer, Ana M González, José M Larruga, Carlos Flores and
Vicente M Cabrera*, 2001
http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-2156-2-13.pdf