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From: Patrick Guinness <>
Subject: [DNA] Y-chromosome conference
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 11:56:54 +0000


Dear List,

Here is some detail on a conference organised by Lutz Roewer
who set up the Y-str databases. 2 days in sunny Portugal in November,
no attendance fees. Plus some email addresses of various academics
that might be useful.

PG

At 6:46 pm +0200 1/8/02, Lutz Roewer wrote:
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>Subject: III. International Y-User Workshop
>Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 18:46:35 +0200
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>Dear friends and colleagues,
>
>on behalf of the organizers of the III. International Forensic Y-User
>Workshop - Antonio Amorim, Leonor Gusmao, Cintia Alves and their team in
>Porto - I would like to invite you to our next meeting in Portugal taking
>place in November 7-9, 2002. All participants of the first two workshops in
>1996 and 2000 in Berlin and the many other colleagues using the Y chromosome
>in forensic and genealogical practice as well as in molecular anthropology
>could expect another meeting of high scientific standard, open and
>spontaneous debate and a gateway to large collaborative projects and
>international quality control schemes.
>Portugal is probably one of the best European venues to meet in November,
>not only because of the hopefully sunny weather and the beautiful city but
>especially because of our engaged hosts at the IPATIMUP. No fees will be
>charged for participants of the meeting as it is a tradition for this
>workshop series !
>If you click the website www.ystr.org for the preliminary program you will
>get a list of renowned scientists and forensic analysts which have already
>accepted the invitation to talk at the meeting. Most of them have already
>contributed to the I. and II. Workshop.
>We hope on your abstracts sent in up until the deadline at September 15th,
>2002 !
>Please use the electronic options at the webpage to registrate for the
>Workshop soon or send a direct e-mail to the organizers : António Amorim
>(); Cíntia Alves () or Leonor Gusmão
>().
>Because we expect a dense program the Y-User Workshop will already start at
>Thursday Morning, November 7, 9.00 Uhr and will last until Friday, November
>8, afternoon.
>Please inform all those colleagues which are not on my mailing list about
>the workshop.
>
>On this occasion I would like to remember you that one of the most
>successful projects having been organized by the Workshop participants is
>the Y-STR haplotype reference database (YHRD) run by the International
>Forensic Y-User Group (IFYUG) and curated by the Institute of Legal
>Medicine, Humboldt-University Berlin. The YHRD with it`s current European,
>Asian and American branches are accompanied by a QC test scheme and full
>internet accession. Of course we will present at the Workshop the actual
>state of the databases. Sascha Willuweit - who is responsible not only for
>the aesthetic impression of simple Y-STR haplotype data but also for the
>exorbitant stable and reliable internet appearance - will talk at the
>meeting about the new presentation of the database as a global one with a
>number of customer-tailored database extractions. Michael Krawczak will give
>an insight in the population genetic impact of the data collection with a
>focus on Europe. For the latter presentation we still looking for haplotype
>data from quality tested labs having haplotyped Y-chromosomes from Europe,
>Asia, North and Latin Amerika as well as from Africa. All data sets sent in
>as an Excel file can be stored directly to the database without rewriting.
>All data sent in up until mid of August will be considered in a
>comprehensive statistical analysis (conducted by Michael Krawczak) which
>will led to an adaequate publication on European Y-genetics coauthored by
>all contributors.
>Up until now the databases present 10.035 European, 1705 US American and
>1803 Asian haplotypes from 117 population groups. Any contribution makes the
>repository more informative for the forensic users and more valuable for the
>bioinformaticians and anthropologists. Contributions to the databases are
>welcome everyday and no deadlines apply.
>
>Best wishes and see you in Porto
>Lutz Roewer
>
>
>
>
>***********************
>PD Dr. Lutz Roewer
>Institute of Legal Medicine
>Medical Faculty (Charité)
>Humboldt-University Berlin
>Hannoversche Str. 6
>D-10115 Berlin, Germany
>e-mail:
>internet: www.ystr.org/europe , www.ystr.org/usa , www.ystr.org/asia
>tel. +49 (0)30 450 52 50 12
>fax. +49 (0)30 450 52 59 12

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