Fingerprint enhancement revisited and the effects of blood enhancement chemicals on subsequent Profiler Plus(TM) fluorescent short tandem repeat DNA analysis of fresh and aged bloody fingerprints

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 354-380

  Frégeau, Chantal J ^a   Germain, Olivier ^b   Fourney, Ron M ^a  

^a ROYAL CANADIAN MOUNTED POLICE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À TROIS RIVIÈRES   (Canada)

Author keywords

1,8 diazafluoren 9 one (DFO); Amido Black; Blood enhancement chemicals; Crowle's Double Stain; DNA analysis; Fingermark; Fingerprint; Fluorescence; Forensic science; Hungarian Red; Leucomalachite green; Luminol; Multiplex; Ninhydrin; Polymerase chain reaction (PCR); Presumptive test reagents; Sequencer; Short tandem repeat (STR)

Indexed keywords

DNA; FLUORESCENT DYE; REAGENT;

ARTICLE; AUTOANALYZER; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD STAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; FEMALE; FINGER DERMATOGLYPHICS; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; TANDEM REPEAT; TIME;

BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DERMATOGLYPHICS; DNA; FEMALE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMANS; INDICATORS AND REAGENTS; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 1642586760     PISSN: 00221198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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