Double swab technique for collecting touched evidence

Legal Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 181-184

  Pang, B C M ^a   Cheung, B K K ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Crime scenes; DNA typing; Double swab technique; Forensic science; Short tandem repeat; Touched sample evidence

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRIME; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; POLYMORPHIC LOCUS; QUALITY CONTROL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT;

ALLELES; CRIME; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMANS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 34249339043     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2006.12.003     Document Type: Article

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