FBI Approves Thermo Fisher NGS Forensic Profiling Solution

Thermo Fisher Scientific announced that the US Federal Bureau of Investigation has approved its Applied Biosystems Precision ID System mtDNA analysis solution to generate mitochondrial DNA profiles for the National DNA Index System.

NDIS is the national level of the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS), a DNA profile database that contains entries submitted by federal, state, and local law enforcement. It accepts short tandem repeat, Y chromosome, and mtDNA profiles. According to the FBI’s CODIS and NDIS Fact Sheet, “mtDNA data are only searched with the missing person-related indexes.”

Source: https://www.genomeweb.com/sequencing/fbi-approves-thermo-fisher-ngs-forensic-profiling-solution