Forensic age prediction for dead or living samples by use of methylation-sensitive high resolution melting

Legal Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue , 2016, Pages 5-10

  Hamano, Yuya ^a,b   Manabe, Sho ^a   Morimoto, Chie ^a   Fujimoto, Shuntaro ^a   Ozeki, Munetaka ^a   Tamaki, Keiji ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Forensic Science Laboratory   (Japan)

Author keywords

Age prediction; DNA methylation; Forensic science; MS HRM

Indexed keywords

AGE; BLOOD; CURVE FITTING; DNA METHYLATION; FORENSIC SCIENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HIGH RESOLUTION MELTING ANALYSIS; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREDICTION; PROMOTER REGION; STATISTICAL MODEL; AGING; BONE AGE DETERMINATION; FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY; FORENSIC GENETICS; GENETICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROCEDURES;

AGE DETERMINATION BY SKELETON; AGING; DNA METHYLATION; FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY; FORENSIC GENETICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84979585415     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: 18734162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2016.05.001     Document Type: Article

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