Dental DNA Mutations Occurring after Death: A Novel Method for Post-Mortem Interval (PMI) Estimation.

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Post-mortem interval (PMI) estimation remains one of the major challenges in forensic practice, especially for late PMIs beyond 7-10 days after the death of the subject. In 2022, an innovative method to investigate the occurrence of mutations induced by the death of a subject in the DNA of post-mortem dental pulps at different PMIs was developed, applying a next-generation sequencing (NGS) analysis. The present...

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• Dental Pulp
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• High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing
• Mutation