TY - JOUR
T1 - Routine forensic use of the mitochondrial 12S ribosomal RNA gene for species identification
AU - Melton, Terry
AU - Holland, Charity Anne
PY - 2007/11/1
Y1 - 2007/11/1
N2 - Since July 2004, Mitotyping Technologies has been amplifying and sequencing a ∼150 base pair fragment of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) that codes for 12S ribosomal RNA, to identify the species origin of nonhuman casework samples. The ∼100 base pair sequence product is searched at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ BLAST and the species match is reported. The use of this assay has halved the number of samples for which no mtDNA results are obtained and is especially useful on hairs and degraded samples. The availability of species determination may aid forensic investigators in opening or closing off lines of inquiry where a highly probative but challenging sample has been collected.
AB - Since July 2004, Mitotyping Technologies has been amplifying and sequencing a ∼150 base pair fragment of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) that codes for 12S ribosomal RNA, to identify the species origin of nonhuman casework samples. The ∼100 base pair sequence product is searched at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ BLAST and the species match is reported. The use of this assay has halved the number of samples for which no mtDNA results are obtained and is especially useful on hairs and degraded samples. The availability of species determination may aid forensic investigators in opening or closing off lines of inquiry where a highly probative but challenging sample has been collected.
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1556-4029.2007.00553.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1556-4029.2007.00553.x
M3 - Article
C2 - 17868265
AN - SCOPUS:36949009434
SN - 0022-1198
VL - 52
SP - 1305
EP - 1307
JO - Journal of Forensic Sciences
JF - Journal of Forensic Sciences
IS - 6
ER -