Professor Denise Syndercombe Court Academics Supervisors Professor of Forensic Genetics Research subject areas Forensics Contact details denise.syndercombe-court@kcl.ac.uk +44 (0) 79 6626 2167 @synded
DNA: Risks of Contamination to the Evidential Sample Characterisation of the UK domestic dog (Canis lupus familiaris) population for identification purposes using a forensically validated set of 13 autosomal STR markers A response to EA-4/23 INF:2025 "The Assessment and Accreditation of Opinions and Interpretations using ISO/IEC 17025:2017" Considerations for the Implementation of Massively Parallel Sequencing into Routine Kinship Analysis Biogeographical Ancestry Estimation from Autosomal Short Tandem Repeats in the Sequencing Era The EDNAP mitochondrial DNA population database (EMPOP) collaborative exercises: Organisation, results and perspectives Forensic identity SNPs: Characterisation of flanking region variation using massively parallel sequencing Detection of a Novel Y-Chromosome Allele Variant for Locus DYS518 A common epigenetic clock from childhood to old age Protecting against racial bias in DNA databasing Reply to Response to Vacuous standards - Subversion of the OSAC standards-development process Combining current knowledge on DNA methylation-based age estimation towards the development of a superior forensic DNA intelligence tool Characterization of the public transit air microbiome and resistome reveals geographical specificity Classification of STR allelic variation using massively parallel sequencing and assessment of flanking region power Development and validation of the EUROFORGEN NAME (North African and Middle Eastern) ancestry panel Global patterns of STR sequence variation: Sequencing the CEPH human genome diversity panel for 58 forensic STRs using the Illumina ForenSeq DNA Signature Prep Kit Worldwide FST Estimates Relative to Five Continental-Scale Populations DNA methylation-based age prediction using massively parallel sequencing data and multiple machine learning models Towards broadening Forensic DNA Phenotyping beyond pigmentation: Improving the prediction of head hair shape from DNA Forensic genealogy: Some serious concerns UK and Irish Y-STR population data—A catalogue of variant alleles Forensic DNA Phenotyping Legislation Cannot be Based on “Ideal FDP”—A Response to Caliebe, Krawczak & Kayser (2017) Body fluid identification using a targeted mRNA massively parallel sequencing approach – results of a EUROFORGEN/EDNAP collaborative exercise Concordance of the ForenSeq™ system and characterisation of sequence-specific autosomal STR alleles across two major population groups The tao of MPS: Common novel variants Differentially methylated Embryonal Fyn-associated Substrate (EFS) gene as a blood-specific epigenetic marker and its potential application in forensic casework DNA methylation-based forensic age prediction using artificial neural networks and next generation sequencing Discovery of potential DNA methylation markers for forensic tissue identification using bisulphite pyrosequencing A collaborative EDNAP exercise on SNaPshot™-based mtDNA control region typing Comprehensive Analysis of Pan-African Mitochondrial DNA Variation Provides New Insights into Continental Variation and Demography RNA/DNA co-analysis from human skin and contact traces - Results of a sixth collaborative EDNAP exercise Epigenetic Fingerprint A novel application of real-time RT-LAMP for body fluid identification: using HBB detection as the model Inter-laboratory evaluation of the EUROFORGEN Global ancestry-informative SNP panel by massively parallel sequencing using the Ion PGM™ Evaluation of the predictive capacity of DNA variants associated with straight hair in Europeans Brief report: Isogenic induced pluripotent stem cell lines from an adult with mosaic down syndrome model accelerated neuronal ageing and neurodegeneration Evaluation of DNA variants associated with androgenetic alopecia and their potential to predict male pattern baldness Forensic ancestry analysis with two capillary electrophoresis ancestry informative marker (AIM) panels: Results of a collaborative EDNAP exercise Determining the authenticity of athlete urine in doping control by DNA analysis Towards male individualization with rapidly mutating Y-chromosomal STRs Collaborative EDNAP exercise on the IrisPlex system for DNA-based prediction of human eye colour 'New turns from old STaRs': Enhancing the capabilities of forensic short tandem repeat analysis A global analysis of Y-chromosomal haplotype diversity for 23 STR loci A collaborative European exercise on mRNA-based body fluid/skin typing and interpretation of DNA and RNA results Report into a discordant result at D16S539 between SGM Plus® and PowerPlex® ESI 16 kits in a criminal case sample and implications for the UK National DNA Database upgrade RNA/DNA co-analysis from human menstrual blood and vaginal secretion stains: Results of a fourth and fifth collaborative EDNAP exercise Forensic DNA methylation profiling - Potential opportunities and challenges Y chromosome STR haplotype data for an Irish population Forensic validation of the SNPforID 52-plex assay The recombination landscape around forensic STRs: Accurate measurement of genetic distances between syntenic STR pairs using HapMap high density SNP data View all publications
12 August 2025 King's joins €4.7 million project to modernise forensic DNA analysis King’s has been awarded a share of a €4.7 million research grant to support a groundbreaking…