Good shedder or bad shedder- The influence of skin diseases on forensic DNA analysis from epithelial abrasions

International Journal of Legal Medicine

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 179-183

  Kamphausen, Thomas ^a   Schadendorf, Dirk ^a   Von Wurmb Schwark, Nicole ^b   Bajanowski, Thomas ^a   Poetsch, Micaela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Crime scene investigation; Dermatopathy; Low copy number DNA; STR

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; CHILD; DERMATOGLYPHICS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FEMALE; FORENSIC GENETICS; GENETICS; HAND; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; PATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSORIASIS; SKIN; SKIN ULCER;

ADOLESCENT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DERMATITIS, ATOPIC; DERMATOGLYPHICS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FEMALE; FORENSIC GENETICS; HAND; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; PSORIASIS; SKIN; SKIN ULCER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861152193     PISSN: 09379827     EISSN: 14371596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00414-011-0579-0     Document Type: Article

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