Identification of the skeletal remains of a murder victim by DNA analysis.

doi:10.1038/352427a0

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Identification of the skeletal remains of a murder victim by DNA analysis.

Nature - 1 Aug 1991

Hagelberg E, Gray I C, Jeffreys A J

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There is considerable anthropological and forensic interest in the possibility of DNA typing skeletal remains. Trace amounts of DNA can be recovered even from 5,500-year-old bones and multicopy human mitochondrial DNA sequences can frequently be amplified from such DNA using the polymerase chain...

Topics

Adolescent
Base Sequence
Bone and Bones
DNA
Fathers
Female
Forensic Medicine
Genotype
Homicide
Humans
Molecular Sequence Data
Mothers
Nucleic Acid Denaturation
Nucleic Acid Hybridization
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Wales

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