Teeth and bones are frequently the only sources of DNA available for identification of
degraded or fragmented human remains. The unique composition of teeth and their location …

DNA profiling has emerged as the gold standard for the identification of victims in mass
disaster events providing an ability to identify victims, reassociate remains and provide …

Designed as an accessible introduction to basic scientific principles and their application in
professional practice, Forensic Biology provides a concise overview of the field. Focusing …

In recent years the recovery and analysis of DNA from skeletal remains has been applied to
several contexts ranging from disaster victim identification to the identification of the victims …

The relative DNA shedding propensity of palmar and finger surfaces has not previously
been examined. In the study presented here, palm and fingermarks of six volunteers were …

Short tandem repeat (STR) typing from skeletal remains can be a difficult task. Dependent
on the environmental conditions of the provenance of the bones, DNA can be degraded and …

One of the major challenges of molecular biology in anthropological analysis is the
identification via DNA typing of bone or teeth samples that can be collected from …

For human identification purposes, forensic genetics has primarily relied upon a core set of
autosomal (and to a lesser extent Y chromosome) short tandem repeat (STR) markers that …

The advent of massively parallel sequencing (MPS) in the past decade has opened the
doors to mitochondrial whole-genome sequencing. Mitochondrial (mt) DNA is used in …

Extracting DNA from degraded human remains poses a challenge for any forensic genetics
laboratory, as it requires efficient high-throughput methods. While little research has …