Medico-Legal Update

  • Year: 2010
  • Volume: 10
  • Issue: 2

DNA typing as a forensic investigation

  • Author:
  • V. Jayashankar
  • DOI:
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Dept. of Forensic Medicine, M.A.P.I.M.S, Melmaruvathur, Kancheepuram, Tamilnadu.

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Abstract

Human body is made up of billions of cells which constitute various tissue and organ systems. DNA is exclusively responsible for maintaining the identity of different species of organisms. The basis of DNA Typing procedure is genetic polymorphism seen in each individual, hence useful for establishing identity of a person.