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Changing times: DNA resequencing and the "nearly normal autopsy".
Journal of forensic and legal medicine - 1 Oct 2007
Karch Steven B
Abstract excerpt
No matter how meticulous the autopsy, non-traumatic deaths in the young go unexplained from 5-10% of the time. The percentage is higher in children and young adults. Advances in molecular biology and DNA technology now make it possible to explain many of those deaths. This development is not without irony. At the same time that many clinicians are expressing frustration about the lack of tangible gains provided...
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