Article
STR and mitochondrial DNA SNP typing of a bone marrow transplant recipient after death in a fire.
Legal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) - 1 Nov 2012
Seo Yasuhisa, Uchiyama Daisuke, Kuroki Kohji, Kishida Tetsuko
Abstract excerpt
Personal identification of a house fire victim is described. About 5 years prior to death, the victim had been underwent bone marrow transplantation (BMT) with a graft from an unrelated donor as treatment for acute myelogenous leukemia. Clinically, the victim had been in remission at the time of death. Typing of STRs and sequencing of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) were performed using blood from the heart as well as...
Topics
- Bone Marrow Transplantation
- Burns
- Child
- DNA Fingerprinting
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Fatal Outcome
- Female
- Fires
- Forensic Anthropology
- Humans
- Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute
- Male
- Microsatellite Repeats
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
- Tissue Donors
- Transplantation Chimera
- Transplantation, Homologous