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This review explores developments in forensic biology and forensic DNA analysis of biological evidence during the years — Over articles were returned with these searches. Through visual examination of titles and authors, duplicates were removed, and articles sorted into 32 subcategories to arrive at a list of almost publications that were supplemented throughout the remainder of the year as this review was being prepared.
Table 1 lists the top ten journals from this search. Thus, searches conducted with one or even multiple databases e. Top ten journals with forensic DNA articles published from to based on a Scopus search on June 13, The Handbook of DNA Profiling spans two volumes and pages with 54 chapters from contributors representing 17 countries.
Over the past three years, several special issues on topics related to forensic biology were published in Forensic Science International: Genetics and Genes. These special issues were typically collated virtually rather than physically as invited articles were published online over some period of time and then bundled together virtually as a special issue. Some of these review articles or a set of special issue articles are open access i. Topics for review articles in these special issues include DNA transfer [ 14 ], probabilistic genotyping software [ 15 ], microhaplotypes in forensic genetics [ 16 ], investigative genetic genealogy [ 17 ], forensic proteomics [ 18 ], distinguishing male monozygotic twins [ 19 ], and using the human microbiome for estimating post-mortem intervals and identifying individuals, tissues, or body fluids [ 20 , 21 ].
All of these topics will be discussed later in this article. In July , the Advances in Forensic Genetics articles were compiled as a page book. As of June , it has published 89 articles involving DNA, most of which are descriptions of population genetic data. Numerous documentary standards and guidance documents related to forensic DNA have been published by various organizations around the world.
