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Individual identification and kinship testing from hair shaft nuclear DNA: leveraging short amplicon strategy and bioinformatics models.
International journal of legal medicine - 1 Mar 2026
Li Ran, Wang Nana, Dai Shuangya, Chen Junchao, Lv Dejian, Zang Yu, Liu Jiajun, Wu Enlin, Chen Xinxin, Zhong Ziyue, Wu Riga, Sun Hongyu
Abstract excerpt
Hair samples are commonly encountered at crime scenes. However, most of them are telogen hairs, from which only partial DNA profiles can be yielded. These profiles are generally insufficient for forensic human identification and kinship testing. In this study, we sequenced the hair roots and hair shafts from ten unrelated individuals using a short-amplicon panel, and evaluated the performance of hair shafts of...
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