Forensic mass screening using mtDNA

International Journal of Legal Medicine

Volumn 120, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 372-376

  Szibor, Reinhard ^a   Plate, Ines ^a   Schmitter, Herrmann ^b   Wittig, Holger ^a   Krause, Dieter ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Bundeskriminalamt   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dinucleotide repeat; Mass screening; MtDNA; Restriction sites; Sexual murder

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; FEMALE; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAIR; HAPLOTYPE; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SCHOOL CHILD; SEXUAL CRIME; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT;

ALLELES; CHILD; COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGIONS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; GENETIC SCREENING; HAIR; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RAPE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES;

EID: 33750339231     PISSN: 09379827     EISSN: 14371596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00414-006-0085-y     Document Type: Article

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