Table 3.
Breakdown of MPS-based forensic genomic applications according to their organizational structure
| Type of laboratory | Already done/planned to do | MPS-based forensic application | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (No. of labs) | STR analysis | mtDNA | Identity SNPs | Ancestry SNPs | Appearance SNPs | Methylation analysis | mRNA analysis | |
| Police/governmental | Yes | 14 | 9 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 4 | 3 |
| (n = 43) | Planned | 18 | 12 | 20 | 16 | 19 | 21 | 15 |
| Academic | Yes | 13 | 9 | 13 | 14 | 10 | 8 | 7 |
| (n = 41) | Planned | 16 | 13 | 12 | 11 | 14 | 18 | 10 |
| Private | Yes | 5 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| (n = 18) | Planned | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 2 |
| Other | Yes | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| (n = 3) | Planned | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |