The genetics of innocence: Analysis of 194 U.S. DNA exonerations

Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages 97-120

  Hampikian, Greg ^a   West, Emily ^b   Akselrod, Olga ^b  

^a BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Innocence Project   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA fingerprinting; Mitochondrial DNA; RFLP; STR; Y STR

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; D1S80 PROTEIN; D7S8 PROTEIN; DNA; GAMMA GLOBIN; GLYCOPHORIN A; HAE III ENZYME; HINF I ENZYME; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; POLYMARKER; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BITE WOUND; BLOOD; BLOOD GROUP A; CHROMOSOME 6; CHROMOSOME 7; CLOTHING; CRIME; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA EXONARATION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FINGER DERMATOGLYPHICS; FINGER NAIL; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; GENE LOCUS; GENETICS; HAIR; HLA SYSTEM; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; LEGAL EVIDENCE; MICROSCOPY; OFFENDER; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SALIVA; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; SMEAR; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SPERM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TOBACCO; UNITED STATES; VAGINA DISCHARGE; VICTIM; WITNESS; Y CHROMOSOME;

CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; CRIMINALS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FORENSIC GENETICS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PRISONERS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80052701142     PISSN: 15278204     EISSN: 1545293X     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-genom-082509-141715     Document Type: Article

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