DNA@King’s, King’s College London

DNA@King's (DNA analysis at King's College London) is accredited by UKAS, and the Ministry of Justice, with experts providing specialist services including complex kinship analysis, human identification, specialist forensic casework, population genetics including forensic phenotyping, geographic ancestry, and human age estimation for over 50 years.

Our expert team of scientists and professionals has been working in human identification and relationship testing for 50 years led by Professor Denise Syndercombe Court, Professor of Forensic Genetics and an Expert Witness. Additional services include cell line authentication from CellCheck@King's, and DNA analysis in urine for identifying individuals with allegations of doping in sport.

The Forensic Genetics group is the main provider of population frequencies for forensic purposes in the UK and sequence population frequencies worldwide, and is one of a small group of international laboratories that are leaders in the use of massively parallel sequencing (MPS) internationally.

The team also has expertise in Y-chromosome and mitochondrial DNA tests, particularly useful in analysis of hairs and bones in criminal and disaster victim identification (DVI), in sexual assault cases and in genealogy.

Additional Resources:

• Who are DNA@King’s, King’s College London?: DNA analysis at Kings Leaflet

• UK Ministry of Justice accreditation to conduct court-approved tests; DNA analysis @ King’s is a UKAS accredited testing laboratory No. 7850, subject to regular independent inspection; compliant with the Department of Health Code of Practice and Guidance on Genetic Paternity Testing Services: Schedule of Accreditation (PDF) issued by United Kingdom Accreditation Service 7850
  
• Part of King's Forensics intro video: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/forensics/about/index.aspx
  
• Our Research: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/forensic-genetics-1
  

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