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The effects of different maceration techniques on nuclear DNA amplification using human bone.
Journal of forensic sciences - 1 Jul 2010
Lee Esther J, Luedtke Jennifer G, Allison Jamie L, Arber Carolyn E, Merriwether D Andrew, Steadman Dawnie Wolfe
Abstract excerpt
Forensic anthropologists routinely macerate human bone for the purposes of identity and trauma analysis, but the heat and chemical treatments used can destroy genetic evidence. As a follow-up to a previous study on nuclear DNA recovery that used pig ribs, this study utilizes human skeletal remains treated with various bone maceration techniques for nuclear DNA amplification using the standard Combined DNA Index...
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