Diagnosing post-mortem treatments which inhibit DNA amplification from US MIAs buried at the Punchbowl

Forensic Science International

Volumn 178, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 171-177

  Koon, H E C ^a   Loreille, O M ^b   Covington, A D ^c   Christensen, A F ^d   Parsons, T J ^b,e   Collins, M J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^d Joint Base Pearl Harbor Hickam   (United States)

^e International Commission on Missing Persons   (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Author keywords

Bone; Collagen; Cross linking; DNA; DSC; Mortuary practices; TEM

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; FORMALDEHYDE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BATTLE INJURY; BONE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; DNA CROSS LINKING; DNA DETERMINATION; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMOSTABILITY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 44349107569     PISSN: 03790738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2008.03.015     Document Type: Article

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