PCR analysis of the short tandem repeat (STR) system HUMVWA31. Allele and genotype frequencies in an Italian population sample.

abstract：:We demonstrate the applicability of ion-pair reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (ICEMS) for the simultaneous characterization of length and nucleotide polymorphisms. Two sections within the first (HVS-I) and second (HVS-II) hypervariable segme...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Oberacher H,Niederstätter H,Parson W

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：:Growth arrest-specific 6 (Gas6) is widely expressed in leukocytes, platelets, endothelial cells, and monocytes. It regulates various processes including granulocyte adhesion to the endothelium, cell migration, thrombus stabilization, and cytokine release. In humans, increased plasma Gas6 levels have been described in ...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Palmiere C,Augsburger M

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mixture DNA profiles commonly appear in forensic genetics, and a large number of statistical methods and software are available for such cases. However, most of the literature concerns mixtures where the contributors are assumed unrelated and the genetic markers are unlinked. In this paper, we consider mixtures of lin...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Dørum G,Kling D,Tillmar A,Vigeland MD,Egeland T

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three immunohistochemically different myelomonocytic subtypes, i.e. MRP8, MRP14 and 27E10 were quantitatively evaluated in the intraalveolar, alveolar-interstitial and alveolar-intracapillary lung compartments. Lung sections from 5 major groups with defined causes of death, i.e. drowning and death during immersion (DI...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Brinkmann B,Hernandez MA,Karger B,Ortmann C

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological samples, including skeletal remains exposed to environmental insults for extended periods of time, exhibit increasing levels of DNA damage and fragmentation. Human forensic identification methods typically use a combination of mitochondrial (mt) DNA sequencing and short tandem repeat (STR) analysis, which t...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Zavala EI,Rajagopal S,Perry GH,Kruzic I,Bašić Ž,Parsons TJ,Holland MM

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to the requirement to minimise exposure to radiation, it is desirable to develop non-ionising imaging procedures for the analysis of skeletal maturation for forensic age diagnostics in living individuals. The present pilot study analyses the applicability of ultrasound examinations for the evaluation of apophyseal...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Schmidt S,Schmeling A,Zwiesigk P,Pfeiffer H,Schulz R

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the fundamental questions in forensic medicine and anthropology is whether or not a bone or bone fragment is human. Surprisingly at times for the extreme degradation of the bone (charred, old), DNA cannot be successfully performed and one must turn to other methods. Histological analysis at times can be propose...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Cummaudo M,Cappella A,Biraghi M,Raffone C,Màrquez-Grant N,Cattaneo C

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the cause of death in myocardial ion channel diseases (MICD)-induced sudden cardiac death (SCD) cases is a difficulty in forensic identification practices. The majority of MICD-induced SCD cases would experience lethal ventricular tachyarrhythmia (LVTA) before deaths; thus, confirming the occurrence of LV...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Wu J,Wu Q,Dai W,Kong J,Lv J,Yu X,Wang X,Wang D

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Speckle interferometry is a non-destructive measurement technique using a laser. The principles of the method are described. Human hyoid bones (n = 10) were investigated. Loads were applied to individual points on the anterior surface of the body of hyoid bones. All hyoid bones showed an asymmetric displacement. The d...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Kasprzak H,Podbielska H,von Bally G,Fechner G

更新日期：1993-01-01 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：:The sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is at present based on unknown pathogenetical mechanisms but in industrial nations is the most common cause of death in infancy after the perinatal period. Studies of a large number of adrenal glands in this syndrome have not been reported. Therefore, we evaluated 146 SIDS cases...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Pérez-Platz U,Saeger W,Dhom G,Bajanowski T

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ancestry informative markers (AIMs) can be used to detect and adjust for population stratification and predict the ancestry of the source of an evidence sample. Autosomal single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are the best candidates for AIMs. It is essential to identify the most informative AIM SNPs across relevant p...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Zeng X,Chakraborty R,King JL,LaRue B,Moura-Neto RS,Budowle B

更新日期：2016-03-01 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：:Allele frequency distributions for 15 tetrameric short tandem repeat (STR) loci were determined using the AmpFlSTR® Identifiler Plus™ PCR amplification kit. There was little evidence of departures from Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium or association of alleles of different loci in the population samples. The probability of ...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Lucassen A,Ehlers K,Grobler PJ,Shezi AL

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Allele frequencies of the Short tandem repeat systems HumVWA and HumACTBP2 were determined from 105 unrelated individuals from the area of Szeged, Hungary. A total of 8 alleles was detected for VWA, and 23 alleles were found for ACTBP2. In both systems no deviations from Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium were observed. A com...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Csete K,Schürenkamp M,Varga T

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For a long time, it has been thought that fresh and frozen tissues are the only possible source of biological material useful to extract nucleic acids suitable for downstream molecular analysis. Recently, for forensic purpose such as personal identification, also fixed tissues have been used to recover DNA molecules, ...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Muciaccia B,Vico C,Aromatario M,Fazi F,Cecchi R

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of this study was to evaluate the sensitivity of postmortem computed tomography (PMCT), postmortem magnetic resonance imaging (PMMR) and PMCT angiography (PMCTA) compared with autopsy in cases of adult death investigations. METHODS:For this systematic review and meta-analysis, Embase, PubMed, Scopus...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Ampanozi G,Halbheer D,Ebert LC,Thali MJ,Held U

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 34 deployed driver and passenger airbags from altogether 20 vehicles after frontal collisions were investigated. In 80% of the airbags possible biological traces could be located with an alternative light source (ALS, Polilight) at a wavelength of 450-470 nm. These traces were swabbed, a part of them additi...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Grubwieser P,Pavlic M,Günther M,Rabl W

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine the prevalence of hepatitis G virus (HGV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections in deceased injection drug users and for comparison of the detection rates of HGV and HCV RNA in liver tissue with detection rates in postmortem serum samples, RT-PCR was performed in 50 drug abuse-related fatalities. HGV RNA w...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Seidl S,Koenig B,Reinhardt G,Hampl W,Mertens T,Michel D

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The allelic frequency distributions and statistical forensic parameters of 26 mini short tandem repeat (mini-STR) loci in a sample of 1575 unrelated individuals from five different Brazilian regions were obtained. All the analyzed loci showed great diversity and were highly informative. The results were compared with ...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Pereira TFC,Malaghini M,Magalhães JCM,Moura-Neto R,Sotomaior VS

更新日期：2018-09-01 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 genetic polymorphisms of 21 autosomal short tandem repeat (STR) loci included in the GlobalFiler™ PCR Amplification Kit were evaluated in 3032 unrelated individuals Altay Han of Xinjiang, northwest China. All of the loci reached the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. These loci were examined to determine allele frequenci...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Li X,Li L,Wang Q,Zhang J,Ge W,Bai R,Yu X,Shi M

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the most common conditions during fetal development is anencephaly, which often involves many identification difficulties in the context of physical anthropology, as it causes severe skull challenges. In this paper, we describe the alterations found in the skulls of two perinatal individuals with anencephaly fr...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Irurita J,Alemán I,Viciano J,López-Lázaro S,Botella MC

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In three separate shooting incidents involving multiple gunshots, two FMJ bullets and one bullet fragment found at the scene (one from each case) were investigated for the presence of biological material from the victim after perforation. The surface of the missiles, which did not show obvious tissue traces when exami...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Karger B,Meyer E,DuChesne A

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a simultaneous study of the VWA STR locus by the Perkin-Elmer Profiler Plus kit and the Promega GenePrint CTTv kit in a population sample from North Portugal and in 418 meiosis from family material and paternity cases. PCR amplification and genotyping were performed according to the manufacturer's instructio...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Alves C,Amorim A,Gusmão L,Pereira L

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic data from 21 autosomal insertion-null (INNULs) markers found in the InnoTyper® 21 Human DNA Analysis (InnoGenomics®) was evaluated in 190 unrelated individuals from Andalusia. Allele frequencies and forensic parameters were estimated for the 20 INNULs. All loci were in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium in the study p...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Saiz M,Gutierrez-Carvajal A,Galvez X,Lorente JA,Alvarez JC

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic diversity indices and forensic parameters at 20 autosomal short tandem repeat (STR) loci were evaluated in 233 unrelated individuals of Himachal Pradesh, India. In total, 255 alleles were observed with an average of 11.25 ± 0.88 alleles per locus. None of the loci deviated from Hardy Weinberg Equilibrium. The ...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Sahajpal V,Singh A,Thakur M,Sharma A,Bhandari D,Sharma LK,Chandra K,Kumar S

更新日期：2020-09-01 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：:The purpose of the present research is to study the radiographic visibility of the periodontal ligament in third molars from a northern Chinese population to determine if this methodology could be used for the 18-year threshold. A total of 1300 conventional orthopantomograms from 650 males and 650 females of northern ...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Guo YC,Li MJ,Olze A,Schmidt S,Schulz R,Zhou H,Pfeiffer H,Chen T,Schmeling A

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00