Legal Medicine
Volume 12, Issue 1 , Pages 8-12 , January 2010

Usefulness of blood vessels as a DNA source for PCR-based genotyping based on two cases of corpse dismemberment

Received 13 November 2008 ,Revised 16 September 2009 ,Accepted 16 September 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2009.09.004

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