Abstract:The European Network of Forensic Science Institutes (ENFSI) recommended the establishment of forensic DNA databases and specific implementation and management legislations for all EU/ENFSI members. Therefore, forensic institutions from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, and Macedonia launched a wide set of activities to support these recommendations. To assess the current state, a regional expert team completed detailed screening and investigation of the existing forensic DNA data repositories and ass… Show more
“…An additional focus of the 10 001 Dalmatians project will be complementation of the existing population genetics data (25-28) in order to create a systematic and comprehensive overview of the genetic structure of the modern Croatians.…”
“…An additional focus of the 10 001 Dalmatians project will be complementation of the existing population genetics data (25-28) in order to create a systematic and comprehensive overview of the genetic structure of the modern Croatians.…”
“…Expanded forensic DNA database will probably lead to the violation of a number of individual and civil rights (62). To defend individual and civil rights is to forbid the inclusion of genetic susceptibilities information in crime databases (2).…”
Section: Dna Databasementioning
confidence: 99%
“…The European Network of Forensic Science Institutes (ENFSI) aims to undertake the standardization of forensic practices in support of policing across the whole of the EU (2). Recently, EU legislation has made all 28 members of the EU to participate in a network of national DNA databases (62).…”
Section: Dna Databasementioning
confidence: 99%
“…The use of DNA typing in criminal procedures in Serbia is regulated by the Criminal Procedure Act. This Act enables the district lawyer to order police to collect the buccal swab samples from the suspect, with or without his or her consent and requires the forensic pathologist to collect the DNA samples from unidentified bodies, and to collect and preserve samples of any biological traces obtained during autopsy (62).…”
Forensic genetics represents a combination of molecular and population genetics. Personal identifi cation and kinship analysis (e.g. paternity testing)
“…For example, one such initiative pertains to the concordance of the pertinent Balkan databases (9). Another initiative resulted in affiliating the Slavic Speaking Working Group for Forensic Genetics (SSWFG) with ISABS ( http://www.isabs.hr/index.php/sswgfg-isabs/history-of-sswgfg-isabs ).…”
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