Identification of Decomposed Human Remains by Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) Profiling
Reay, DT
Chief medical examiner, King County Medical Examiner's Office, and associate professor, Departmentof Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

Tepper, SL
Assistant medical examiner. King County Medical Examiner's Office, Department of PublicHealth, Seattle, WA.


Abstract
After routine methods failed to establish positive identification of a decomposed homicide victim, deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) typing techniques using blood from the victim and putative parents of the victim were used. This is the first report in the literature of a case using DNA fingerprinting in a “parentage” context to establish identity of unidentified, decomposed human remains.

Keywords:
cure shrinkage, deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), DNA analysis, DNA fingerprinting, DNA profiling, forensic science, human identification, maternity, paternity, pathology and biology

Paper ID: JFS353900724

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