Article
Short tandem repeat typing of bodies from a mass disaster: high success rate and characteristic amplification patterns in highly degraded samples.
BioTechniques - 1 Apr 1995
Whitaker J P, Clayton T M, Urquhart A J, Millican E S, Downes T J, Kimpton C P, Gill P
Abstract excerpt
We have used a PCR-based DNA-typing method, involving the coamplification of four tetrameric short tandem repeat loci, in the analysis of a large number of severely degraded tissue samples taken from the scene of a mass disaster in which bodies were exposed to extreme thermal, physical and chemic...
Topics
- Alleles
- Artifacts
- Bone Marrow
- Bone and Bones
- DNA
- Disasters
- Forensic Medicine
- Gene Amplification
- Humans
- Molecular Weight
- Nucleic Acid Denaturation
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid
- Sex Determination Analysis