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Course, academic year 2025/2026
  
   
Forensic genetics - M320034
Title: Forenzní genetika
Guaranteed by: Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology (320)
Faculty: Faculty of Food and Biochemical Technology
Actual: from 2024 to 2026
Semester: winter
Points: winter s.:5
E-Credits: winter s.:5
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/2, C+Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited / unlimited (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: Šimková Halina Mgr.
Classification: Biology > Genetics
Interchangeability : N320093
This subject contains the following additional online materials
Annotation -
This course introduces students to the forensic DNA analysis as the dominant method of determining the origin of biological material. It describes biological principles on which the field is based, application circuits (criminology, kinship analysis, identification analysis, bioarcheology, recreational genetics), principles of analysis from the collection of biological material to final evaluation. It brings an overview of non-ID analysis and includes the basics of forensic statistics in the field of genetic analysis.
Last update: Kubová Petra (19.12.2017)
Course completion requirements -

Attendance at lectures is recommended, but not monitored.

Attendance at seminars is strongly recommended.

Last update: Lipov Jan (02.03.2026)
Literature - Czech

Doporučená:

  • John M. Butler. Fundamentals of Forensic DNA Typing. : Elsevier Academic Press, 2009, s. ISBN 978-0-12-374999-4.
  • Halina Šimková. Breviář forenzní genetiky. Brno: Tribun EU, 2012, s. ISBN 978-80-263-0247-6.

Volitelná:

  • John M. Butler. Advanced Topics in Forensic DNA Typing: Methodology. : Elsevier Academic Press, 2011, s. ISBN 9780123745132.
  • John M. Butler. Forensic DNA Typing: Biology Technology and Genetics of STR Markers. 2nd Edition. : Elsevier Academic Press, 2005, s. ISBN 978-0121479527.
  • John S. Buckleton, Jo-Anne Bright, Duncan Taylor. Forensic DNA Evidence Interpretation, 2nd Edition. : CRC Press, 2021, s. ISBN 9780367778101.
  • Ron C. Michaelis et al. A Litigator's Guide to DNA: From the Laboratory to the Courtroom. : Elsevier Academic Press, 2008, s. ISBN 978-0123740366.

Last update: Lipov Jan (02.03.2026)
Requirements to the exam - Czech

Předmět je zakončen ústní zkouškou

Last update: Lipovová Petra (09.08.2023)
Syllabus -

1. Introduction to forensic genetics, forensic genetics history, relationship to forensic biology and serology

2.Collection of biological traces and extraction of DNA from forensic samples

3.charakterization of DNA - DNA quantification, determination of quality and species specificity

4.Individuality as a complex concept, the principles of personal identification

5.Repetitive sequences of the human genome, STR markers

6.Methods of analysis on STR markers, the genetic profile analysis of composite samples

7.Forensic analysis of gonozomal markers and mitochondrial DNA

8.Population forensic genetics, forensic statistics

9.Non-human typing - forensic analysis of fauna and flora, forensic microbiology

10.Prediction of phenotype via DNA analysis and "non-ID" forensic DNA analysis

11.Forensic genetics laboratory, DNA databasing

12.Genogeography, genogenealogy, paleogenetics and biomolecular archaeology

13.Quality in the laboratory

14.Genetics as part of the forensic and investigative sciences and the Czech legal system

Last update: Kubová Petra (19.12.2017)
Learning resources -

none

Last update: Kubová Petra (19.12.2017)
Learning outcomes -

Students will be able to:

communicate effectively in the field of forensic DNA analysis (verbal interpretation of data, formulation of conclusions of expert reports, expert arguments in court). In addition they will be able to understand the basics of DNA analysis and its integration with the other forensic sciences and basic and additional applications and capabilities field; shall know the current commonly used methods and expertise understanding their nature, they will be able to claim the standard expertise to design satisfactory method of analysis, will be able to understand the issue of quality in the laboratory and will have an idea about the basic legal aspects of the field.

Last update: Kubová Petra (19.12.2017)
Registration requirements -

Molecular genetics, DNA analysis

Last update: Kubová Petra (19.12.2017)
Teaching methods
Activity Credits Hours
Účast na přednáškách 1 28
Příprava na přednášky, semináře, laboratoře, exkurzi nebo praxi 2 56
Příprava na zkoušku a její absolvování 2 56
5 / 5 140 / 140
 
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