Identification using DNA from skin contact: Case reports

Legal Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages

  Tokutomi, Tomoharu ^a   Takada, Yuzo ^a   Kanetake, Jun ^a   Mukaida, Masahiro ^a  

^a NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adhesive cotton tipped swab; Amplication; Forensic science; Identification; PCR; Swabbing

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FEMALE; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; VICTIM;

CLOTHING; CRIME; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES; TOUCH;

EID: 67349200658     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2009.02.004     Document Type: Article

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