Circulating microRNA for the identification of forensically relevant body fluids

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 1024, Issue , 2013, Pages 221-234

  Hanson, Erin K ^a   Ballantyne, Jack ^a,b  

^a National Center for Forensic Science   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Body fluid identification; Forensic science; MicroRNA; miRNA profiling; Real time PCR; RNA

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; DIAGNOSTIC KIT;

ARTICLE; BLOOD; BODY FLUID; FORENSIC SCIENCE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MENSTRUATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION; SALIVA; SPERM; VAGINAL SECRETION; CHEMISTRY; DIAGNOSTIC KIT; FEMALE; FORENSIC GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; PROCEDURES; VAGINA SMEAR;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BODY FLUIDS; FEMALE; FORENSIC GENETICS; HUMANS; MALE; MICRORNAS; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALIVA; SEMEN; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 84924840960     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-62703-453-1_18     Document Type: Article

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