Amy
E. Decker
Research
Associate
Human
Identity Project Team
DNA Measurements Group
Biochemical Science Division
Chemical Science & Technology
Laboratory
National
Institute of Standards and Technology
100 Bureau Drive, Mail Stop 8311
Gaithersburg, MD
20899-8311, USA
Email: amy.decker@nist.gov
Phone: 301-975-5205
Fax: 301-975-8505
EDUCATION
B.S. Biotechnology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2003
M.S. Biotechnology, Johns Hopkins University, 2007
PUBLICATIONS
1. Vallone, P.M., Decker, A.E., Butler, J.M. (2005) Allele frequencies for 70 autosomal SNP loci with U.S. Caucasian, African American, and Hispanic samples. Forensic Sci. Int. 149: 279-286.
2. Butler, J.M., Decker, A.E., Kline, M.C, Vallone, P.M. (2005) Chromosomal duplications along the Y-chromosome and their potential impact on Y-STR interpretation. J. Forensic Sci. 50(4): 853-859.
3. Butler, J.M., Decker, A.E., Vallone, P.M., Kline, M.C. (2006) Allele frequencies for 27-YSTR loci with U.S. Caucasian, African American, and Hispanic samples. Forensic Sci. Int. 156:250-260.
4. Kline, M.C., Vallone, P.M., Decker, A.E., Redman, J.W., Duewer, D.L., Butler, J.M. (2005) Testing candidate DNA quantitation standards with several real-time quantitative PCR methods. Proceedings of the 16th International Symposium on Human Identification http://www.promega.com/geneticidproc/ussymp16proc/abstracts/kline.pdf.
5. Vallone, P.M., Decker, A.E., Coble, M.D., Butler, J.M. (2005) Evaluation of an autosomal SNP 12-plex assay. Progress in Forensic Genetics 11, Elsevier Science: Amsterdam, The Netherlands, International Congress Series 1288, 61-63.
6. Butler, J.M., Coble, M.D., Decker, A.E., Duewer, D.L., Hill, C.R., Kline, M.C., Redman, J.W., Vallone, P.M. (2005) Setting standards and developing technology to aid the human identity testing community. Progress in Forensic Genetics 11, Elsevier Science: Amsterdam, The Netherlands, International Congress Series 1288, 628-635.
7. Decker, A.E., Kline, M.C., Vallone, P.M., Butler, J.M. (2007) The impact of additional Y-STR loci on resolving common haplotypes and closely related individuals. FSI Genetics 1:215-217.
8. Coble, M.D., Kline, M.C., Redman, J.W., Decker, A.E., Vallone, P.M., Butler, J.M. (2007) An investigation of discrimination capacity and the cause of null alleles in Linear Array mitostrips using control region sequence data. submitted.
9. Decker, A.E., Kline, M.C., Redman, J.W., Reid, T.M., Butler, J.M. (2007) Analysis of mutations in father-son pairs with 17 Y-STR loci. submitted.
PRESENTATIONS
For list of recent presentations, see http://www.cstl.nist.gov/biotech/strbase/NISTpub.htm.