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Guidance: Y-STR profiling (FSR-GUI-0013)

Forensic Science Regulator

January 21
13:51 2025

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This document provides guidance for Y-STR analysis delivered into the criminal justice system in England and Wales as it applies to profile comparison and kinship testing. It does not apply to ancestry testing.

You can view the previous version of this guidance on the National Archives.

Updates to this page

Published 26 March 2021
Last updated 21 January 2025 +show all updates
  1. Added a link to the previous version of this guidance.

  2. Guidance updated with changes to formatting, structure and naming system, in line with requirements under the Forensic Science Act 2021. Accessible version of guidance added.

  3. First published.

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