Forensic and Genetic Research

X-Chromosomal STR-based analysis of genetic diversity, structure, and phylogeny in the Sri Lankan Vedda population

This study analyzes X-chromosomal STR diversity in the Vedda population, finding significant genetic differentiation from other South Asian groups and highlighting their unique genetic heritage.

A 4,000-year genomic history of Bantu speakers from the Congo rainforest

This study uses genomic data from ancient and present-day individuals to trace the 4,000-year demographic history of Bantu speakers in the Congo rainforest, revealing early dispersals and a population crisis.

Promises and limitations of current ancient human epigenetic clocks

This study evaluates epigenetic clocks for age estimation in ancient human DNA, finding they are unreliable for continuous age-at-death but accurate for sex determination.

Ancient genomes chronicle the history of adaptive evolution in East Asia

This study uses ancient genomes to analyze adaptive evolution in East Asia, finding pre-Neolithic selection at key loci and a link between ADH1B*48His and wheat farming.

mixKIN: An ancestry-aware kinship estimation method for low coverage genomes

mixKIN improves kinship estimation from low-coverage genomes by accounting for ancestry, outperforming existing methods in admixed and heterogeneous populations.

A versatile set of computational tools for inference of genetic ancestry from human molecular data

The paper introduces RAIDS, a toolset for inferring genetic ancestry from various sequence data, including cancer and low-coverage scenarios.