TS: Privacy and impact on 'personalized medicine' (should be precision medicine, post here: http://t.co/BE4QHq2QNj ) #HIDS15
7:47am March 11th 2015 via Twitter Web Client
TS: Voluntary samples w/mass screens - shouldn't stay in db. Innocent subjects also. #HIDS15
TS: Policy affecting expansion - NGS personal information SNPs. Sample & Profile destruction after innocence declared #HIDS15
TS: Most think a democracy won't move, but Copenhagen Post 80% support concept #HIDS15
TS: Pilot in Peru for newborns: a biometric ID card (w/IAFIS searching). Whole population db's (will grow in the Middle East) #HIDS15
TS: Familial - everybody going in takes the debate of 'who goes in' out of policy-maker's hands. #HIDS15
7:46am March 11th 2015 via Twitter Web Client
TS: Ref samples will start (10y?) What to include? Challenging samples; familial searching much easier 'but a sore subject' #HIDS15
TS: But not w/DNA - b/c scientists 'owned it'. Q for casework: how deep should we look? Will need legislation to regulate use #HIDS15
TS: Once devices are available, protocols necessary. Brings ownership to law enforcement. 'We saw this with Aphis (fingerprinting)' #HIDS15
TS: Concept: part of booking process is swab & testing w/in 90m. But laws need to be changed. 'Must be done by accredited lab' #HIDS
TS: CE and STR technology dominant for 20y. Next 20y: MPS and rapid DNA. Going faster w/out qualified personnel #HIDS15
TS: Criminal justice systems on down to clean water. Perhaps rapid DNA devices? #HIDS15
TS: But beyond 2025? 117 remaining countries face daunting challenges. 'Many of these will need new methods' #HIDS15
TS: Project that by 2025, 80 new countries (map in red, Brazil, India, Argentina, Mexico) 100-150M profiles #HIDS15
7:45am March 11th 2015 via Twitter Web Client
TS: Now 60M offender samples worldwide; 30M from China. Their firm collects data yearly. #HIDS15
TS: 80% of hits would have been otherwise missed if only violent offenders were profiled. 49 countries now have nat'l programs #HIDS15
TS: The 'greatest crime-fighting tool' to-date. Crime is now reduced, exonerate the innocent, save gov't funds #HIDS15
TS: To justify DNA databases worldwide, and when MPS is introduced, what public policy discussions will take place? #HIDS15
Tim Schellberg Gordon Thomas Honeywell: The impact of new DNA technologies on the future of criminal offender DNA databases #HIDS15
TP: For MPS: able to handle degraded samples, lower costs of human ID. Haiti earthquake: 150K missing. 'Human rights apply to all' #HIDS15
TP: Also db inter-operability, technical development intensely focused on the missing. Cooperative agreements w/Interpol, others #HIDS15
TP: Migration, displaced persons, cross-border problems. Conclude: missing persons db resources; cooperative agreements #HIDS15
7:44am March 11th 2015 via Twitter Web Client
TP: Areas w/long-term programs: Iraq and to a lesser extent Libya. Now ongoing security has gone to 'rock bottom'. #HIDS15
TP: Uses DNAView for final relationship reporting. Has developed a data management system, online inquiry work in-progress #HIDS15
TP: Drove down costs w/automation; now uses many types of analysis. Family DNA matching (custom), pairwise comparisons #HIDS15
TP: "Aggressive" publicity campaigns to pressure government & get involvement & public participation #HIDS15
TP: Used 3D mapping sometimes to get electronic surveys of how graves were found. Anthropology. Very important: public involvement #HIDS15
TP: ~80 staff, bar chart w/different types of field sites: mass graves, private burials. Many photos of their documentation process #HIDS15
TP: Importance of data protection: requirement for disclosure under specific individual consent #HIDS15
TP: Graph of linkages between secondary sites: can put together a pattern of criminal activity #HIDS15
TP: Family ref db: 91,701. Missing: 29.6k. bone: 41K. 17.8K positive DNA ID. (70% of the 35K have been ID'd to-date). #HIDS15
7:43am March 11th 2015 via Twitter Web Client
TP: Almost exclusively - mtDNA, complex genetic kinship analysis. Total ID: 6928. From 1997-2011 bar chart, about 500/y from 2001 #HIDS15
TP: DNA-led approach: confirming presumptive hypothesis. Large-scale typing and 'cold-hit' matching. Not simple: aDNA from bone #HIDS15
TP: Book of missing clothes: 281 cases, but 72 ID'd the same effects. After DNA: only 25 #HIDS15
TP: Perpetrators dug them up and spread the bodies in other locations. Photo of mortuary, clothing & effects documented #HIDS15
TP: Thousands died, rest imprisoned. 8K victims in Srebrenica; killed by rifle, five primary gravesites ID'd. Aerial images #HIDS15
TP: Safe area in '93, >20K refugees in '95, overrun and failed defense by UN. July 11-13 '95: 10K-15K men attempted escape #HIDS15
7:42am March 11th 2015 via Twitter Web Client
TP: ICMP website: http://t.co/sQbbwqfbpO '95 35K missing at the end of conflict due to ethnic cleansing. #HIDS15
TP: ICMP Int'l declaration - 'persons missing as a consequence of armed conflict and human rights abuses' #HIDS15
TP: Incidental findings w/family genetic data (highly sensitive, can endanger people). Photo of a woman being prepared to be stoned #HIDS15
TP: Recognizes the role forensic genetics has to play, and in addition the respect for data protection #HIDS15
TP: Quotes the UN Human Rights Council (website: http://t.co/4N6CamvMDg ) DNA an 'essential tool' for right to know #HIDS15
TP: Rule of Law requirement: an emerging human rights framework. Affected populations are entitled to ID efforts. #HIDS15
TP: "Even with the wonderful @appliedbio instrumentation" - a state-of-the-art laboratory isn't the major barrier #HIDS15
7:41am March 11th 2015 via Twitter Web Client
TP: More than technical capability - 'these issues often pose the greatest challenge for an effective response' #HIDS15
TP: 'Science cannot act in a vacuum': predetermined roles and responsibilities; also public involvement and outreach #HIDS15
TP: Esp. true in war crimes, human rights violations. High quality requirement for forensic data #HIDS15
TP: The req. to protect all this sensitive data too. Response should be responsibility of states. Also w/criminal investigations #HIDS15
TP: Specialized search & recovery teams; for ID: many other areas like fingerprints, dental & medical records; DNA #HIDS15
TP: Technical tools for discovery: IT, Social Media, remote imaging, geophysics; for recovery: documentation, forensic archeology #HIDS15
