CH: Published extraction protocol in '13 http://t.co/d2TWol8Fqs Extracted from 1888 sample also 1938 one #HIDS15
7:49am March 11th 2015 via Twitter Web Client
CH: DNA extraction - horn is an epitermal derivative. Can be harvested from live animal, no bony core, 3y to regrow. #HIDS15
CH: Rhino horn jewelry 'widely available if you know where to look for them'. #HIDS15
CH: Used as a status symbol of consumer countries: Vietnam and China. Like a Ferrari - an expensive imported item, used w/alcohol #HIDS15
CH: Rhino horn a traditional Chinese medicine; now a rumored cancer cure in Vietnam. A 'party drug and status symbol' #HIDS15
CH: Rhino horn described as 'like cocaine, minus the risk'. Most valuable illegally traded commodity. #HIDS15
7:48am March 11th 2015 via Twitter Web Client
CH: Charted poaching arrests, 165 in '10; 344 in '14. From poacher to intermediary to national buyer to int'l exporter #HIDS15
CH: Poaching numbers: 13 in '07, 333 in '10, 1215 in '14. "Out of control now." "Decline exceeding reproduction rate." #HIDS15
CH: 'Our freezers are constantly full'. Photo of dead animal, saws and axes, horn matched to individual carcass at crime scene #HIDS15
CH: MOU with Kenya Wildlife too. Forensic cases: 22 in '10 to 1067 in '14. Done with very limited funding in animal forensics #HIDS15
CH: Total number (alive and dead) in RhODIS: 15K. From SA, state and private owners (5K0, many other African countries #HIDS15
CH: Only 5 Northern White Rhinos left; 18K Southern White Rhinos. 98% in South Africa #HIDS15
Cindy Harper Veterinary Genetics Laboratory Univ Pretoria S Africa The Rhinoceros DNA database: a forensic tool #HIDS15
Special session: How Rhino DNA database can help save a species from extinction http://t.co/0Ug3kpRw5W
7:47am March 11th 2015 via Twitter Web Client
TS: Believes pressure once NGS in-place - to expand autosomal, tDNA, more information in db's, not less #HIDS15
TS: As precision medicine has so much more data and impact - health, gov't agency, insurance. While for forensics limited ID #HIDS15
TS: Privacy and impact on 'personalized medicine' (should be precision medicine, post here: http://t.co/BE4QHq2QNj ) #HIDS15
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
