What is "gednap"

GEDNAP is the acronym for German DNA Profiling and was used in the early nineties in analogy to EDNAP (European DNA Profiling, a working group of the International Society for Forensic Genetics (ISFG) for the first time in the course of the proficiency tests organized by the Stain Commission, a Joint Commission of Institutes of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences in Germany.

After the introduction of DNA markers Prof. Bernd Brinkmann, at that time the director of the institute of Legal Medicine in Münster (Germany) was appointed by the Stain Commission as Director of the GEDNAP Proficiency test. After his retirement in 2007 Bernd Brinkmann founded the Institute of Forensic Genetics, serves as managing director and director of the GEDNAP Proficiency test program.

Its aim is to offer forensic laboratories the opportunity to participate regularly with proficiency tests that are certified. The certificate documents that a certain number of biological samples of human origin (i.e., artificial body fluid stains and reference samples) has successfully been typed with a certain number of DNA markers routinely applied in forensic DNA profiling.

There are two GEDNAP proficiency tests per year. The participants receive three reference samples and four artificial stains.