Scientific Working Group on
DNA Analysis Methods (SWGDAM)
PUBLIC COMMENT PAGE
In accordance with the SWGDAM Bylaws (Section V.C.5), SWGDAM will make any new or revised guidance or standard document(s) available for public comment for a minimum of 30 days. Generally, SWGDAM attempts to review its guidance documents within 5 years of their issuance and is usually actively revising at least one of its guidance documents at any given time. SWGDAM strongly encourages the forensic DNA community or other interested group to comment on the SWGDAM documents currently in this stage of development. Upon receipt, these comments will be forwarded to the appropriate SWGDAM Committee for consideration and may be incorporated into the final document considered for approval by the SWGDAM Membership.
Alternately, SWGDAM may publish a response to a specific suggestion or recommendation on its FAQ Page for general information purposes. SWGDAM will make all reasonable efforts to advise the forensic DNA community of those documents currently available for public comment. SWGDAM strongly encourages all interested parties to regularly monitor SWGDAM.org for the guidance document(s) or standard document(s) currently available for public comment. Please use the contact portal below for providing comments on the SWGDAM document(s) available for public comment.
SWGDAM Documents Available for Public Comment
The new proposed SWGDAM Guidelines for Reporting Likelihood Ratios are now available for public comment.
The new guideline document is being proposed to replace the 2018 Recommendations of the SWGDAM ad hoc Working Group on Genotyping Results Reported as Likelihood Ratios and provides updates and additional information with regards to the original recommendations. Some of this additional information came from the Forensic Technology Center of Excellence Webinar, provided in 2018 when the original recommendations were published.
The purpose of these guidelines is to promote consistency among laboratories when reporting the results of direct comparisons of evidentiary and reference profiles. These guidelines apply to LRs derived from probabilistic and binary interpretation approaches, as well as kinship analyses. These recommendations are not intended to be applied to the results of familial and other database searching.
SWGDAM Guidelines for Reporting Likelihood Ratios
Please use the PG STR Public Comment Form below for capturing comments and submit it using the File Upload function of the Comment/Suggestion Portal below. To submit the PG STR Public Comment Form, please mark the SWGDAM Document, Page#/Line#, Comment, and Suggested Revision/New Language fields as N/A, complete the Submitted By and Email fields, and upload the Excel sheet as an attachment into the File Upload field.