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MtDNA typing of single-sperm cells isolated by micromanipulation.
Forensic science international. Genetics - 1 Mar 2012
Pereira Joana, Neves Rui, Forat Sophia, Huckenbeck Wolfgang, Olek Klaus
Abstract excerpt
Some sexual assault crimes constitute a problem for the legal institutions confronted with the DNA analysis of such cases. Often, sperm cells are found in the victim's vaginal tract during medical examination but their successful genotyping is compromised by the huge excess of the victim's epithelial cells as well as by the degradation of genomic DNA present in sperm cells as a consequence of female immune...
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