Workshop PEDIGREES AND KINSHIP ANALYSIS IN FORENSIC GENETICS (April 28-29, 2026)

The seminar will be held at the Facultad de Derecho (April 28-29, 2026 )

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

Tuesday, April 28 – Relatedness and kinship analysis

08:30-8:45: Registration

08:45 – 09:00: Workshop. 

09:00 – 10:00: Pedigrees and measures of relatedness (MDV).

10:00 – 11:00: Exercises I (Software: QuickPed).

11:00 – 11:30: Coffe break.

11:30 – 12:30: Forensic kinship testing (TE).

12:30 – 13:30: Exercises II (Software: Familias + R).

13:30 – 15:00: Lunch

15:00 – 16:00: Kinship testing with linked markers (MDV).

16:00 – 17:00: Exercises III (Software: KLINK).

Wensday, April 29 – Identification cases

09:00 – 10:30: Disaster victim identification (TE).

10:30 – 11:00: Coffe break.

11:00 – 12:00: Exercises IV (Software: DIVIANA).

12:00 – 13:30: Realised relatedness and IBD segments IBD  (MDV).

13:30 – 15:00: Lunch

15:00 – 16:00: Exercises V (Software: ibdsim2).

16:00 – 17:00: Case study: Identifying a victim of the Marcinelle mining disaster.