Identification of an alleged offender of murder by VNTR analysis: case report.
DNA typing was used to demonstrate that three human body pieces found disposed of in the countryside around Athens and the suspicions about the perpetrator's identity were connected. Reverse paternity testing was attempted by comparative typing of three variable number tandem repeats loci in the remains, as well as in the presumptive parents and sister of the decedent, demonstrating Mendelian inheritance of the alleles of the loci analyzed. Confronting the results of the abovementioned analysis, the suspect accepted the accusation.
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Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Medical School, University of Athens, Greece.
Hatzaki
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Koutselinis
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D000328:Adult; D044466:Asian People / Q000235:genetics*; D001344:Autopsy; D018732:Forensic Anthropology / Q000379:methods; D005554:Forensic Medicine / Q000379:methods; D005838:Genotype; D006115:Greece; D006708:Homicide; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D018598:Minisatellite Repeats / Q000235:genetics*; D010334:Paternity; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction