Year: 2019
Pages: 282-314
Number: Volume 11, issue 2
Type: scientific article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31301/2221-6197.bmcs.2019-26
Topic: Article
Authors: Garafutdinov R.R.!, Sagitov A.M., Sakhabutdinova A.R.!, Khusnutdinova E.K., Aminev F.G., Chemeris A.V., Anisimov V.A.!
The article presents the main milestones in DNA forensics. A brief historical background on the development of approaches to DNA identification of personality, focusing on the current state in this area. The main attention is paid to the emergence and formation of forensic DNA databases and their distribution around the world. Particular interest is shown to the prospects of the organization of universal DNA databases covering the entire population, in connection with which the issues of DNA digitalization and the type of polymorphism of the human genome used come to the fore. The extremely low level of digitilization of primary data using STR-loci is demonstrated, which is especially evident when using methods of massive parallel sequencing of DNA of new generations, whereas single-nucleotide polymorphism have the highest level of DNA digitilization and allow to form highly organized databases with clearly fixed boundaries. The ethical aspects of DNA-registration of the population and the future of DNA forensics in connection with the functioning of relevant databases are also considered.
DNA, DNA-criminalistics, VNTR-loci, STR-loci, SNP, single-nucleotide polymorphism, DNA database, universal DNA database, digitalizing