Italian Speaking Working Group

The Gruppo Ematologi Forensi Italiani (G.e.F.I.) was created in 1964 and it consists of approximately 100 scientists, mostly of the forensic area. The requirements for being enrolled in the G.e.F.I. are, in this order:

• to be a practitioner in the field
• to be accepted by the ISFG

Since 2006 the group has worked on collaborative exercises on the following topics:

• Italian database of 16 Y-STRs and analysis of mutation rate by pairwise typing of first cousins
• Allele frequency of NC01 "MiniSTR" multiplex loci in Italy

New collaborative exercises are in development:

• typing of 8 X-STRs by using the Mentype Argus X-8 kit
• haplogrouping of Y-SNPs by using some recently developed multiplexes (Onofri et al, Forensic Sci. Int. 2006)

Meeting announcement:

The next G.e.F.I. meeting will be held September 18th to 20th, 2008 in Padova. Please contact Susi Pelotti for more information.

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