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SWGDAM Documents
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 Quality Assurance Standards Documents

Autosomal STRs

SWGDAM Interpretation Guidelines for Autosomal STR Typing by Forensic DNA Testing Laboratories

Addendum to the SWGDAM Interpretation Guidelines for Autosomal STR Typing by Forensic DNA Testing Laboratories to Address Next Generation Sequencing

Guidelines for the Use of Probabilistic Genotyping with Autosomal STR Typing Results

 

Guidelines for Reporting Likelihood Ratios

SWGDAM Guidelines for STR Enhanced Detection Methods

Lineage Markers

SWGDAM Interpretation Guidelines for Y-Chromosome STR Testing

Supplemental Information for the SWGDAM Interpretation Guidelines for Y-Chromosome STR Typing by Forensic DNA Laboratories

Interpretation Guidelines for Mitochondrial DNA Analysis by Forensic DNA Testing Laboratories

 

Supplemental Information for the SWGDAM Interpretation Guidelines for Mitochondrial DNA Analysis by Forensic DNA Testing Laboratories

Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNP)

SWGDAM Interpretation Guidelines for Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) Analysis by Forensic DNA Testing Laboratories

Validation

SWGDAM Validation Guidelines for Forensic DNA Analysis Methods

SWGDAM Guidelines for the Validation of Probabilistic Genotyping Systems

Miscellaneous

SWGDAM Guidelines for the Collection and Serological Examination of Biological Evidence

SWGDAM Contamination Prevention and Detection Guidelines for Forensic DNA Laboratories

SWGDAM Recommendations for the Efficient DNA Processing of Sexual Assault Evidence Kits.

SWGDAM Guidelines for Missing Persons Casework

 

SWGDAM Training Guidelines
 

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Miscellaneous Communications
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SWGDAM Communications

Technical Communications

SWGDAM Resource Document:  Forensic DNA Analysis – Team Approach

SWGDAM Notice on QAS Educational Requirements

Report on Y-Screening of Sexual Assault Evidence Kits (SAEKs)

Overview of Investigative Genetic Genealogy

SWGDAM Position Statement on Rapid DNA Analysis

Recommendations from the SWGDAM Adhoc Working Group on Familial Searching

 

SWGDAM Letter to R-DNA Developers

SWGDAM Clarification on Proficiency Testing of qPCR Workflows Including Y-screening

Letters

 

SWGDAM Comments on NISTIR 8351-DRAFT Entitled DNA Mixture Interpretation:  A NIST Scientific Foundation Review

SWGDAM Comments on NISTIR 8351-DRAFT Entitled DNA Mixture Interpretation:  A NIST Scientific Foundation Review

SWGDAM letter to ASCLD/LAB regarding its revised clarification for the reporting of positive associations and its position statement/interpretation related to mixtures

 

SWGDAM letter to ASCLD/LAB regarding its revised clarification for the reporting of positive associations

 

SWGDAM ASCLD/LAB Interested Party Response

 

SWGDAM letter to ASCLD/LAB regarding its Board Clarification of requirement 5.10.1 from ISO/IEC 17025:2005 and 5.10.3.5 from the 2011 ASCLD/LAB-International Supplemental Requirements for Testing Laboratories in the May 2014 ASCLD/LAB Newsletter

Open SWGDAM Letter Regarding the Claims Raised 
in State v. Abernathy that the CODIS Core Loci are Associated with MedicalConditions/Disease States.

 

Open SWGDAM Executive Board Letter Regarding the Claims Raised in State v. Abernathy that the CODIS Core Loci are Associated with Medical Conditions/Disease States

 

Letter to NIJ Regarding the United States Y-STR Database

Received by SWGDAM

NDIS Procedures Board Letter to SWGDAM Regarding Acceptance of NGS-based Forensic DNA Typing Kits

FBI Letter to SWGDAM Regarding QAS Revisions to Facilitate Searching and/or Review of Outsourced DNA Records

Response by The US Equal Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to the request by SWGDAM for an informal advisory opinion on the GINA exemption for forensic laboratories.http://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/foia/letters/2012/gina_forensic_lab_exception.html

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