@article{406b606a66ab4dfba265c0b632a66288,
title = "Setting standards and developing technology to aid the human identity testing community",
abstract = "Our project team at the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is funded by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) to conduct research that benefits the human identity testing community and to create tools that enable forensic DNA laboratories to be more effective in analyzing DNA. We certify standard reference materials, conduct interlaboratory studies, produce new assays to enable improved recovery of information from degraded DNA, evaluate new loci for potential future use in human identity applications, and generate standard information and training materials that are made available on the NIST STRBase website: http://www.cstl.nist.gov/biotech/strbase/. New genetic markers and assays involving STR and SNP loci are examined in a U.S. reference population data set involving approximately 660 samples that are of Caucasian, Hispanic, and African American origin. Efforts to improve STR and SNP typing resources and assays for the community are described.",
keywords = "DNA typing, Interlaboratory studies, NIST, SNP, SRMs, STR, STRBase, Standard reference materials, Y-chromosome, miniSTR, mtDNA",
author = "Butler, {J. M.} and Coble, {M. D.} and Decker, {A. E.} and Duewer, {D. L.} and Hill, {C. R.} and Kline, {M. C.} and Redman, {J. W.} and Vallone, {P. M.}",
note = "Funding Information: These projects were supported by the National Institute of Justice Grant Number 1999-IJ-R-A094 and 2003-IJ-R-029, which is an interagency agreement between NIJ and the NIST Office of Law Enforcement Standards, awarded by the National Institute of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, US Department of Justice. Points of view in this document are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the US Department of Justice. Certain commercial equipment, instruments and materials are identified in order to specify experimental procedures as completely as possible. In no case does such identification imply a recommendation or endorsement by the National Institute of Standards and Technology nor does it imply that any of the materials, instruments or equipment identified are necessarily the best available for the purpose. SRM 2392-I was created by a different NIST team lead by Dr. Barbara Levin.",
year = "2006",
month = apr,
doi = "10.1016/j.ics.2005.09.181",
language = "English",
volume = "1288",
pages = "628--635",
journal = "International Congress Series",
issn = "0531-5131",
publisher = "Elsevier BV",
}