Allele frequencies for 15 STR loci in a population from the Republic of Macedonia.

abstract：:Medico-legal experts are increasingly enlisted to assess the methamphetamine and amphetamine serum concentrations after a criminal offense. However, since criminal users rarely provide useful information to medico-legal experts regarding the substances abused, when the substance(s) was/were used, dose of ingestion too...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Weber M,Lessig R,Richter C,Ritter AP,Weiß I

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development rate of immature Calliphora vicina reared on decomposed liver was significantly slower, by as much as 30 h (55.4 % of total development time) for mid-sized larvae, and 71 h (35.0 %) and 58 h (14.6 %) if using times to the onset of pupariation and eclosion, respectively, than those of immatures that dev...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Richards CS,Rowlinson CC,Cuttiford L,Grimsley R,Hall MJ

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to estimate stature from various parts of the body is essential in medicolegal investigations, particularly in cases in which human remains have been dismembered or mutilated. Therefore, the aim of this study was to generate linear regression models for predicting stature on the basis of sternum length in ...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Macaluso PJ Jr,Lucena J

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Article 25 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (adopted in Nice on 7 December 2000) recognizes and respects the rights of older people to lead a life of dignity and independence and to participate in social and cultural life. It also highlights the importance of prevention and recognition of eld...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Keller E,Santos C,Cusack D,Väli M,Ferrara D,Ludes B,Mangin P,Payne-James JJ,Vieira DN

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Electronic control with the CEW (conducted electrical weapon) has gained widespread acceptance as the preferred force option due to its significant injury reduction. However, a CEW application does stress the human body. In the case of the CEW, the human body response is similar to the challenge of physica...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Kunz SN,Calkins HG,Adamec J,Kroll MW

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of traumatic cervical spinal cord injury due to congenital craniocervical abnormalities is described. The autopsy revealed evidence of hyperextension of the neck due to frontal impact, congenital occipitalization of the atlas accompanied by basilar invagination of the odontoid process and atlanto-axial diastasi...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Aragaki Y,Takatsu A,Shigeta A

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In cooperation with the Crime Investigation Agency (Landeskriminalamt) of North Rhine-Westphalia, we carried out a study of 150 cases of (suspected) neonaticide dating from 1993 to 2007 from all over Germany. The autopsy reports and additional expert opinions (if performed) were evaluated for a minimum of 78 variables...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Schulte B,Rothschild MA,Vennemann M,Banaschak S

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The forensic application of mtDNA typing requires large databases which are regionally well defined. To further this aim, we have typed mtDNA in a sample of 111 French and 106 Sicilians. The French were typed for both hypervariable segments (HVR1 and HVR2) of the mtDNA control region, whereas the Sicilians were only t...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Cali F,Le Roux MG,D'Anna R,Flugy A,De Leo G,Chiavetta V,Ayala GF,Romano V

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Age estimation in living individuals around the age of 18 years remains a difficult challenge. In this study, the anterior inferior vertebral ring apophysis development of cervical vertebrae C2, C3, and C4 of 496 white and 478 black South African individuals aged between 15 and 22 years was assessed from cephalometric...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Uys A,Bernitz H,Pretorius S,Steyn M

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Establishing individuality is an imperative aspect in any investigation procedure. At times, it becomes necessary to determine the sex of the individual to establish identity, and saliva stains found at the scene of crime are of major help in such cases. In the present study, we have determined the sex of the individu...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Mittal T,Saralaya KM,Kuruvilla A,Achary C

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this casuistry, two accidents from Germany and Switzerland are presented that happened during the shot of recoilless anti-tank weapons. In both cases, the injuries led to the death of two soldiers: A 22-year-old soldier in Germany was struck by the counter mass of a so-called Davis gun which had been fired by a com...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Jellinghaus K,Scherer C,Stauffer E,Urban P,Bohnert M,Kneubuehl BP

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In sauna-associated deaths, the vitality of heat exposure is of great importance. Two case reports address this. First, we present the case of a 77-year-old man who was found dead in the sauna of his family home. When found, the sauna door was closed, and the sauna indicated a temperature of 78 °C. The body had alread...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Wegner A,Doberentz E,Madea B

更新日期：2021-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Projectile impact in sandwich bones typically results in formation of conoidal wounds exhibiting a larger region of damage on the inner cortical plate termed the bevel. To date, a number of hypotheses have been put forward to explain the formation of this wound type. The plug and spall hypothesis suggests that the con...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Rickman JM,Shackel J

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A short tandem repeat at the D1S1656 locus was sequenced in 45 selected alleles and 13 different alleles were found which were designated according to the total number of repeats. This STR is a compound hypervariable STR consisting of blocks of (TAGR) repeats with a basic sequence structure (TAGA)4(TGA)0-1(TAGA)6-16(T...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Lareu MV,Barral S,Salas A,Pestoni C,Carracedo A

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper considers the statistical evaluation of DNA mixtures in the following situations: (1) two unknown contributors are related respectively to two typed persons, (2) two of the unknown or untyped contributors are related and the third unknown contributor is related to a typed person, or (3) there are two pairs ...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Hu YQ,Fung WK

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is a multifactorial syndrome and assumingly, among other mechanisms, a deficit in respiratory control leads to a failure of arousal and autoresuscitation when the child is challenged by a stressful homeostatic event, e.g., hypoxia. We hypothesize that genetic polymorphisms involved ...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Läer K,Dörk T,Vennemann M,Rothämel T,Klintschar M

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kinship relation and, in particular, paternity probability estimation using a Bayesian approach require the input of a priori probabilities of different hypotheses. In practical case work, a priori probabilities or priors, for short, must often be estimated using only common sense and symmetry arguments because in mos...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Hubig M,Sanft J,Muggenthaler H,Mall G

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Allele frequencies for 15 autosomal STR loci (N = 290) and haplotype data for 17 Y-STR loci (N = 157) were determined for an admixed population from Belize. There were no detectable departures from Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium expectations at any autosomal STR loci except for the D8S1179 locus (p = 0.002). The combined ...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Flores S,Sun J,King J,Eisenberg A,Budowle B

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myocardial pathology and cardiac functional abnormalities known to occur in association with chronic alcohol abuse have been attributed to a direct toxic effect of ethanol on the intra-myocardial vasculature: alcohol-induced occlusion of small arteries with consequent secondary ischaemia leads to individual myocyte lo...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Ahmed AN,Elton RA,Busuttil A

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular composition of the genetic substrate recovered from seven aged forensic samples has been extensively investigated. A simple enzymatic test based on DNAseI incubation of the extracts showed that the UV-fluorescent material from the forensic specimens is composed of nucleic acids, with the DNA fraction rep...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Previderè C,Micheletti P,Perossa R,Grignani P,Fattorini P

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of tracker dogs is the main method of finding hidden bodies, and in their search the dogs use typical scent patterns. "Electronic noses" can also be used to find and compare such patterns. Highly sensitive scent detectors have been successfully applied, e.g. in the examination of foodstuffs, in environmental t...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Hädrich C,Ortmann C,Reisch R,Liebing G,Ahlers H,Mall G

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using AGCU Y24 Plus PCR Amplification Kit, 32 Y short tandem repeat (STR) loci were analyzed in 355 unrelated male participants of Meizhou city in Guangdong Province of China. By analyzing 341 different haplotypes, it was found that haplotype diversity (HD) and discrimination capacity (DC) were 0.9995 and 0.9605, resp...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Du W,Wu W,Wu Z,Guo L,Wang B,Chen L

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose that clusters of closely linked markers, which segregate as stable haplotypes, provide a high potential to solve complex kinship cases. It is known that the X-chromosomal centromere region shows an extremely low degree of recombination. Hence, we focused our interest on the region between 56 and 64 Mb dista...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Edelmann J,Hering S,Augustin C,Kalis S,Szibor R

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When a forensic DNA sample cannot be associated directly with a previously genotyped reference sample by standard short tandem repeat profiling, the investigation required for identifying perpetrators, victims, or missing persons can be both costly and time consuming. Here, we describe the outcome of a collaborative s...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Keating B,Bansal AT,Walsh S,Millman J,Newman J,Kidd K,Budowle B,Eisenberg A,Donfack J,Gasparini P,Budimlija Z,Henders AK,Chandrupatla H,Duffy DL,Gordon SD,Hysi P,Liu F,Medland SE,Rubin L,Martin NG,Spector TD,Kay

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Falls over railings are frequent case scenarios forensic experts are confronted with. An important issue is the differentiation of accidental and non-accidental falling scenarios. From a biomechanical point of view, this is a challenging task and should be addressed in a multifactorial approach. This work presents a s...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Muggenthaler H,Hubig M,Meierhofer A,Mall G

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To elucidate postmortem computed tomography (PMCT) and postmortem magnetic resonance (PMMR) imaging findings suggesting massive fat embolism. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Consecutive forensic cases with PMCT and PMMR scans of subjects prior to autopsy were assessed. For PMCT, 16- or 64-row multidetector CT scans we...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Makino Y,Kojima M,Yoshida M,Motomura A,Inokuchi G,Chiba F,Torimitsu S,Hoshioka Y,Yamaguchi R,Saito N,Urabe S,Tsuneya S,Horikoshi T,Yajima D,Iwase H

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forensic age estimation of living individuals has become increasingly important in forensic practice with the constant increase of migration movements to developed countries. The method of Greulich and Pyle is one of the most frequently used methods for age determination. The aim of our study was to verify the reliabi...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Zabet D,Rérolle C,Pucheux J,Telmon N,Saint-Martin P

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crania are a reliable source for sex estimation in Euro-Americans, Europeans, and most other populations. Besides morphological assessments, the application of Fordisc® has become a useful tool within the last two decades, creating discriminant functions from morphometric data. Unfortunately, until now, white populati...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Manthey L,Jantz RL,Bohnert M,Jellinghaus K

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The measurement of the myeloperoxidase activity was used to quantify the acute granulocyte reaction. A 35% loss of blood resulted in a clear decrease of the myeloperoxidase activity at the edges of experimental incision wounds in rat skin in the first day after inflicting the wounds. After 12 h only about one-third an...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Laiho K

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bullet velocity is a basic parameter in wound ballistics studies. It is usually measured electronically by means of a variety of solid or photoelectric barriers connected to equipment measuring the time elapsing between impulses, enabling the velocity to be calculated. With the advent of Doppler radar velocity measure...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Knudsen PJ,Svender J

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00