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List of works by David Ballard

"New turns from old STaRs": enhancing the capabilities of forensic short tandem repeat analysis

scientific article published on 16 July 2014

A collaborative EDNAP exercise on SNaPshot™-based mtDNA control region typing

scientific article published on 24 October 2016

A global analysis of Y-chromosomal haplotype diversity for 23 STR loci

scientific article (publication date: September 2014)

A study of mutation rates and the characterisation of intermediate, null and duplicated alleles for 13 Y chromosome STRs.

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Analysis of Mitochondrial Control Region Using Sanger Sequencing

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Body fluid identification and assignment to donors using a targeted mRNA massively parallel sequencing approach - results of a second EUROFORGEN / EDNAP collaborative exercise

scientific article published on 26 November 2019

Brief report: isogenic induced pluripotent stem cell lines from an adult with mosaic down syndrome model accelerated neuronal ageing and neurodegeneration

scientific article published on June 2015

Collaborative EDNAP exercise on the IrisPlex system for DNA-based prediction of human eye colour

scientific article published on 21 April 2014

Comparison of Y-chromosome haplotypes in three racial groups and the possibility of predicting ethnic origin

Concordance of the ForenSeq™ system and characterisation of sequence-specific autosomal STR alleles across two major population groups

scientific article published on 4 November 2017

DNA methylation-based age prediction using massively parallel sequencing data and multiple machine learning models

scientific article published on 08 September 2018

DNA methylation-based forensic age prediction using artificial neural networks and next generation sequencing

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Development and validation of the EUROFORGEN NAME (North African and Middle Eastern) ancestry panel

scientific article published on 15 June 2019

Evaluation of DNA variants associated with androgenetic alopecia and their potential to predict male pattern baldness

scientific article published on 22 May 2015

Evaluation of a custom QIAseq targeted DNA panel with 164 ancestry informative markers sequenced with the Illumina MiSeq

scientific article published on 26 October 2021

Evaluation of the Genplex SNP typing system and a 49plex forensic marker panel

scientific article published on 23 March 2007

Evaluation of the predictive capacity of DNA variants associated with straight hair in Europeans

scientific article published on 14 September 2015

Forensic ancestry analysis with two capillary electrophoresis ancestry informative marker (AIM) panels: Results of a collaborative EDNAP exercise.

scientific article published on 15 June 2015

Forensic validation of the SNPforID 52-plex assay

scientific article published on 06 March 2007

Global patterns of STR sequence variation: Sequencing the CEPH human genome diversity panel for 58 forensic STRs using the Illumina ForenSeq DNA Signature Prep Kit

scientific article published on 03 September 2018

Identification of West Eurasian mitochondrial haplogroups by mtDNA SNP screening: Results of the 2006–2007 EDNAP collaborative exercise

scientific article published on 24 September 2007

Implementing a biogeographic ancestry inference service for forensic casework

scientific article published on 29 August 2018

Inferring ancestral origin using a single multiplex assay of ancestry-informative marker SNPs.

scientific article published on 22 August 2007

Inter-laboratory evaluation of SNP-based forensic identification by massively parallel sequencing using the Ion PGM™.

scientific article published on 15 April 2015

Inter-laboratory evaluation of the EUROFORGEN Global ancestry-informative SNP panel by massively parallel sequencing using the Ion PGM™.

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Massively parallel sequencing of forensic STRs: Considerations of the DNA commission of the International Society for Forensic Genetics (ISFG) on minimal nomenclature requirements

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Report from the STRAND Working Group on the 2019 STR sequence nomenclature meeting

scientific article published on 21 September 2019

Report into a discordant result at D16S539 between SGM Plus® and PowerPlex® ESI 16 kits in a criminal case sample and implications for the UK National DNA Database upgrade

scientific article published on 7 September 2013

STRSeq: A catalog of sequence diversity at human identification Short Tandem Repeat loci

scientific article published in September 2017

The recombination landscape around forensic STRs: Accurate measurement of genetic distances between syntenic STR pairs using HapMap high density SNP data

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Toward male individualization with rapidly mutating y-chromosomal short tandem repeats

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Towards broadening Forensic DNA Phenotyping beyond pigmentation: Improving the prediction of head hair shape from DNA

UK and Irish Y-STR population data-A catalogue of variant alleles

scientific article published on 2 March 2018

Y chromosome STR haplotypes in three UK populations.

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“The devil’s in the detail”: Release of an expanded, enhanced and dynamically revised forensic STR Sequence Guide

scientific article published on 21 February 2018