User:DrACarter

Laboratory Director at Sorenson Genomics (Identigene)
Dr. Anthony Carter provides technical directorship for ancestry, relationship and life sciences genetic testing to Sorenson Genomics and Identigene, llc. He reviews all legal and non-legal casework and provides testimony as a court-qualified expert witness. Dr. Carter plays a lead role in the creation and oversight of laboratory policies, processes and procedures, as well as the research and development and validation of new/novel genetic testing systems and methodologies for all relationship, ancestry and life sciences testing processes.

Dr. Carter received a B.S. in Management Information Systems from Louisiana Tech University in 1997 and a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from Louisiana State University in 2005. His research focused on typing large subfamilies of Alu retrotransposable genetic elements in the human genome, which resulted in the recovery of many markers that are useful for the inference of human geographic origins and human identity testing. Dr. Carter's previous served as Assistant Director at Reliagene Technologies, Inc. in New Orleans, LA, where his responsibilities included the research and development of novel identity and total human and Y quantitation systems as well as monitoring the daily operations of the paternity testing laboratory.

Publications
A.B. Carter, Otieno, A.B., D.J. Hedges, J.A. Walker, D.A. Ray, R.K. Garber, B.A. Anders, N. Anders, N. Stoilova, M.E. Laborde, J.D. Fowlkes, J.D. Fowlkes, C.H. Huang, B. Perodeau, and M.A. Batzer (2004) Analysis of the human Alu Ya-lineage. Journal of Molecular Biology 342:109-118

A.B. Carter, A.-H. Salem, D.J. Hedges, C. Nguyen Keegan, B. Kimball, J.A. Walker, W.S. Watkins, L.B. Jorde and M.A. Batzer (2004) Genome-wide analysis of the human Alu Yb-linage. Human Genomics 1:167-178

Patents
US Patent #7,794,983: Method for Genetic Detection using Interspersed Genetic Elements – Inventors: Anthony B. Carter and Sudhir K. Sinha; (Awarded 9/14/2010): Developed for the purposes of human genetic identity detection for application on nano-fluidics micro-devices. In collaboration with the Louisiana State University Center for Bio-Modular Multi-Scale Systems (CBM2) http://appl003.lsu.edu/cbmm/cbmm.nsf/index

Additional Qualifications
LEAN Six-Sigma Green Belt -- Sorenson Genomics: 2009

LEAN Six-Sigma Black Belt -- Sorenson Genomics: 2011-Sensei Master Black Belt Dirk Hooiman

Relationship Testing Laboratory Assessor -- American Association of Blood Banks (AABB): 2005-Present

Court-Qualified Expert Witness in Forensic and Relationship Testing Casework -- Reliagene Technologies, Inc.: 2006-Present

Forensic DNA Analyst -- Reliagene Technologies, Inc.: 2006-Present

NYSDOH CQ holder for New York State Paternity and Forensic Identity Testing -- Sorenson Genomics: 2009-Present

Committee Appointments
AABB Relationship Testing Accreditation Program Unit

AABB Relationship Testing Standards Program Unit

Professional Memberships
American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG)

Louisiana Association of Forensic Scientists (LAFS)

AABB