Case report: Identification of skeletal remains using short-amplicon marker analysis of severely degraded DNA extracted from a decomposed and charred femur

Forensic Science International: Genetics

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 212-218

  Fondevila, M ^a   Phillips, C ^a   Naveran, N ^a   Fernandez, L ^a   Cerezo, M ^a   Salas, A ^a   Carracedo, Á ^a   Lareu, M V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Degraded DNA analysis; Forensic identification; Mini STR; SNP; STR

Indexed keywords

DNA MARKER; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AMPLICON; ARTICLE; AUTOSOME ABERRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DECOMPOSITION; DNA DEGRADATION; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA ISOLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMUR; FIRE; FORENSIC GENETICS; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; FOREST; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ALLELES; BENCHMARKING; DNA; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMUR; FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; NUCLEAR FAMILY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 43049088159     PISSN: 18724973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2008.02.005     Document Type: Article

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