Outbreaks of human respiratory syncytial virus in wild gorillas highlight the importance of prevention measures and integrated surveillance for risk mitigation

A new Genes paper reports forensic validation of a 95K SNP hybridization-capture panel + Parabon Fx for identifying U.S. military unknowns using extended kinship inference, especially when samples are degraded skeletal remains and close family reference samples aren’t available.

Key takeaways:

• Strong SNP recovery from family reference samples, even at modest inputs
• Skeletal samples showed wide variability, but ~13K+ SNPs supported reliable relationship calls (often out to 3rd–4th degree)
• Highlights both the promise—and the complexities—of kinship inference in admixed ancestry cases