The nucleic acid revolution continues - Will forensic biology become forensic molecular biology?

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue MAR, 2014, Pages

  Gunn, Peter ^a   Walsh, Simon ^b   Roux, Claude ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b Forensics   (Australia)

Author keywords

DNA; Epigenetics; Forensic molecular biology; Methylation; RNA

Indexed keywords

EDAR ASSOCIATED DEATH DOMAIN PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; MICROSATELLITE DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NUCLEIC ACID; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

AGE DETERMINATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD STAIN; BODY FLUID; CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS; DNA METHYLATION; DNA PURIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIGENETICS; FORENSIC GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TELOMERE;

EID: 84897975420     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2014.00044     Document Type: Article

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