Part I: Current Protocols on Capillary Electrophoresis of Amplified DNA Fragments

1. An Overview of DNA Typing Methods for Human Identification: Past, Present, and Future

Robyn Thompson, Silvia Zoppis, and Bruce McCord

2. Capillary Electrophoresis and 5-channel LIF Detection of a 26plex Autosomal STR Assay for Human Identification

Carolyn R. Hill.

3. Capillary Electrophoresis of Mini-STR Markers to Genotype Highly Degraded DNA Samples

Michael Coble

4. Interpretation Guidelines of a Standard Y-chromosome STR 17-plex PCR-CE Assay for Crime Casework

Lutz Roewer and Maria Geppert

5. Capillary Electrophoresis of an X-Chromosome STR Decaplex for Kinship Deficiency Cases

Leonor Gusmão, Cíntia Alves, Iva Gomes, and Paula Sanchéz-Diz

6. A 48-plex autosomal SNP GenPlex Assay for Human Individualization and Relationship Testing

Carmen Tomas, Claus Børsting, and Niels Morling.

7. Typing of 49 Autosomal SNPs by Single Base Extention and Capillary Electrophoresis for Forensic Genetic Testing

Claus Børsting, Carmen Tomas, and Niels Morling

8. A 34-plex Autosomal SNP Single Base Extension Assay for Ancestry Investigations

Christopher Phillips, Manuel Fondevila, and Maviki Lareu

9. SNaPshot(R) Minisequencing Analysis of Multiple Ancestry-informative Y-SNPs Using Capillary Electrophoresis

Maria Geppert and Lutz Roewer

10. Capillary Electrophoresis of 38 Non-coding Biallelic Mini-Indels for Degraded Samples and as Complementary Tool in Paternity Testing

Rui Pereira and Leonor Gusmão

11. Capillary Electrophoresis of an 11-plex mtDNA Coding Region SNP Single Base Extension Assay for Discrimination of the most Common Caucasian HV1/HV2 Mitotype

Peter M. Vallone

12. Capillary Electrophoresis of a Multiplex Reverse Transcription-Polymerase Chain Reaction to Target Messenger RNA Markers for Body Fluid Identification

Cordula Haas, Erin Hanson, and Jack Ballantyne

13. DNA Extraction from Aged Skeletal Samples for STR Typing by Capillary Electrophoresis

Rene Huel, Sylvain Amory, Ana Bilic, Stojko Vidovic, Edin Jasaragic, and Thomas Parsons

14. Interpretation Guidelines for Multilocus STR Forensic Profiles from Low Template DNA Samples

Zoran M. Budimlija and Theresa Caragine

15. Interpretation Guidelines of Mixed STR Multilocus Electrophoretic Profiles

Juan Antonio Luque

16. Capillary Electrophoresis Analysis of a 9-plex STR Assay for Canine Genotyping

Barbara van Asch and Antonio Amorim

17. Capillary Electrophoresis of DNA from Cannabis sativa for Correlation of Samples to Geographic Origin

Heather Miller Coyle

18. Capillary Electrophoresis of Multigene Barcoding Chloroplast Markers for Species Identification of Botanical Trace Evidence

Gianmarco Ferri, Beatrice Corradini, and Milena Alu

Part II: Capillary electrophoresis and DNA Sequencing

19. Capillary Electrophoresis of Big-Dye Terminator Sequencing Reactions for Human mtDNA Control Region Haplotyping in the Identification of Human Remains

Marta Montesino & Lourdes Prieto

20. Capillary Electrophoresis of Human mtDNA Control Region Sequences from Highly Degraded Samples using Short mtDNA Amplicons

Odile Loreille and Jodi A. Irwin

21. INTERPRETATION GUIDELINES OF MTDNA CONTROL REGION SEQUENCE ELECTROPHEROGRAMS IN FORENSIC GENETICS

Manuel Crespillo

22. Capillary Electrophoresis of mtDNA Cytochrome b Gene Sequences for Animal Species Identification

Adrian Linacre