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Successful nuclear DNA profiling of rootless hair shafts: a novel approach.
International journal of legal medicine - 1 Jan 2018
Grisedale Kelly S, Murphy Gina M, Brown Hiromi, Wilson Mark R, Sinha Sudhir K
Abstract excerpt
Historically, rootless hair shaft samples submitted to a forensic laboratory for DNA analysis are reserved for mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis due to the presence of highly degraded as well as insufficient amounts of nuclear DNA. Although mtDNA has been very successful in obtaining results from rootless hair, this system has its limitations, namely, it is a lineage marker that cannot differentiate between...
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