Identification of biological samples in a case of contamination of a cytological slide preparation

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 739-741

  Junge, Anke ^a   Dettmeyer, Reinhard ^a   Madea, Burkhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cell mixture; Cytological preparation; Forensic science; Loss of heterozygosity; Short tandem repeat analysis

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DNA DETERMINATION; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PLEURA FLUID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TANDEM REPEAT;

CARCINOMA; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ELECTROPHORESIS, CAPILLARY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LABORATORY TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; LOSS OF HETEROZYGOSITY; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PLEURA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES;

EID: 43449106217     PISSN: 00221198     EISSN: 15564029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1556-4029.2008.00724.x     Document Type: Article

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