*Address for Correspondence: Dr. Rajat Bhandari, Senior Lecturer, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology Genesis Institute Of Dental Sciences & Research, Ferozepur, Punjab, India.
Online published on 1 October, 2011.
Sex determination is the first step of personal identification in forensic medicine. A number of different sequences of DNA have been used to do gender determination from the X and Y chromosomes obtained from DNA extraction, each having its own sets of merits and downfalls. Some are more sensitive; some can help in determination with very little amount of DNA.
gender, DNA, chromosomes
