DNA repair enables sex identification in genetic material from human teeth

Hippokratia

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 165-168

  Kovatsi, Leda ^a   Nikou, D ^a   Triantaphyllou, S ^b   Njau, S N ^a   Voutsaki, S ^c   Kouidou, S ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Amelogenin; DNA; Forensics; Repair; Sex

Indexed keywords

AGAROSE; AMELOGENIN; DNA; DNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; ASSAY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPAIR; EXPERIMENT; FEMALE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; GENDER IDENTITY; GENE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETICS; GREECE; HUMAN; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSTHUMOUS CARE; SAMPLE; SEX; SEX DETERMINATION; SKELETON; TOOTH;

EID: 68049128108     PISSN: 11084189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Alonso A, Andelinović S, Martin P, et al. DNA typing from skeletal remains: evaluation of multiplex and megaplex STR systems on DNA isolated from bone and teeth samples. Croat Med J. 2001; 42: 260-266. (Pubitemid 32606988)
2. Schmerer WM, Hummel S, Herrmann B. Optimized DNA extraction to improve reproducibility of short tandem repeat genotyping with highly degraded DNA as target. Electrophoresis. 1999; 20: 1712-1716. (Pubitemid 29320462)
3. Schneider PM, Bender K, Mayr WR, et al. STR analysis of arti- ficially degraded DNA-results of a collaborative European exercise. Forensic Sci Int. 2004; 139: 123-134. (Pubitemid 38201111)
4. Pusch CM, Giddings I, Scholz M. Repair of degraded duplex DNA from prehistoric samples using Escherichia Coli DNA polymerase I and T4 DNA ligase. Nucleic Acids Res. 1998; 26: 857-859. (Pubitemid 28291288)
5. Di Bernardo G, Del Gaudio S, Cammarota M, et al. Enzymatic repair of selected cross-linked homoduplex molecules enhances nuclear gene rescue from Pompeii and Herculaneum remains. Nucleic Acids Res. 2002; 30: 16-21.
6. Mitchell D, Willerslev E, Hansen A. Damage and repair of ancient DNA. Mutat Res. 2005; 571: 265-276.
7. Sullivan KM, Mannucci A, Kimpton CP, Gill P. A rapid and quantitative DNA sex test: fluorescence-based PCR analysis of X-Y homologous gene amelogenin. Biotechniques. 1993; 15: 636-8, 640-641. (Pubitemid 23304305)
8. Haas-Rochholz H, Weiler G. Additional primer sets for an amelogenin gene PCR-based DNA-sex test. Int J Legal Med. 1997; 110: 312-315. (Pubitemid 27475676)
9. Ricci U, Sani I, Guarducci S, et al. Infrared fluorescent automated detection of thirteen short tandem repeat polymorphisms and one gender-determining system of the CODIS core system. Electrophoresis. 2000; 21: 3564-3570.
10. Neuhuber F, Radacher M, Meisner N, Tutsch-Bauer E. Nine STR markers plus amelogenin (AmpFlSTR Profiler Plus): a forensic study in an Austrian population. Int J Legal Med. 1999;113: 60-62. (Pubitemid 30117076)
11. Angel L. Lerna. A preclassical site in the Argolid, 2: The people of Lerna. Analysis of a prehistoric Aegean population. Princeton & Washington, New York; 1971; 37-64.
12. Voutsaki S, Triantaphyllou S, Ingvarsson-Sundström A, et al. Project on the Middle HelladicArgolid: a report on the 2005 season. Pharos. 2006; XIII: 93-117.
13. Buikstra JE, Ubelaker DH. Standards for data collection from human skeletal remains. Arkansas Archaeological Survey Research Series, Arkansas; 1994; 23-45.
14. Hagelberg E, Quevedo S, Turbon D, Clegg JB. DNA from Ancient Easter Islanders. Nature. 1994; 369: 25-26.
15. Sivagami AV, Rao AR, Varshney U. A simple and cost-effective method for preparing DNA from the hard tooth tissue, and its use in polymerase chain reaction amplification of amelogenin gene segment for sex determination in an Indian population. Forensic Sci Int. 2000; 110: 107-115. (Pubitemid 30243185)
16. Pfeiffer H, Steighner R, Fisher R, et al. Mitochondrial DNA extraction and typing from isolated dentin-experimental evaluation in a Korean population. Int J Legal Med 1998; 111: 309-313. (Pubitemid 28477805)
17. Sullivan KM, Mannucci A, Kimpton CP, Gill P. A rapid and quantitative DNA sex test: fluorescence-based PCR analysis of X-Y homologous gene amelogenin. Biotechniques. 1993;15: 636-638. (Pubitemid 23304305)
18. O' Rourke DH, Carlyle SW, Parr RL. Ancient DNA: Methods, Progress and Perspectives. Am J Hum Biol. 1996; 8: 557-571.
19. Meyer E, Wiese M, Bruchhaus H, Claussen M, Klein A. Extraction and amplification of authentic DNA from ancient human remains. Forensic Sci Int. 2000; 113: 87-90. (Pubitemid 30649717)
20. Mays S, Cox M. Sex determination in skeletal remains. In: Mays S, Cox M, editors. Human Osteology in Archaeology and Forensic Science. Greenwich Medical Media Ltd, London; 2000; p. 117-130.