Legal Medicine
Volume 12, Issue 2 , Pages 84-89 , March 2010

Evaluation of a new experimental kit for the extraction of DNA from bones and teeth using a non-powder method

  • Tetsushi Kitayama

      Affiliations

    • First Department of Forensic Science, National Research Institute of Police Science, Chiba 277-0882, Japan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Address: 6-3-1 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-0882, Japan. Tel.: +81 4 7135 8001; fax: +81 4 7133 9159.
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  • Yoshinori Ogawa

      Affiliations

    • First Department of Forensic Science, National Research Institute of Police Science, Chiba 277-0882, Japan
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  • Koji Fujii

      Affiliations

    • First Department of Forensic Science, National Research Institute of Police Science, Chiba 277-0882, Japan
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  • Hiroaki Nakahara

      Affiliations

    • First Department of Forensic Science, National Research Institute of Police Science, Chiba 277-0882, Japan
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  • Natsuko Mizuno

      Affiliations

    • First Department of Forensic Science, National Research Institute of Police Science, Chiba 277-0882, Japan
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  • Kazumasa Sekiguchi

      Affiliations

    • First Department of Forensic Science, National Research Institute of Police Science, Chiba 277-0882, Japan
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  • Kentaro Kasai

      Affiliations

    • First Department of Forensic Science, National Research Institute of Police Science, Chiba 277-0882, Japan
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  • Noriko Yurino

      Affiliations

    • Hitachi Software Engineering Co., Ltd., Tokyo 140-0002, Japan
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  • Takahide Yokoi

      Affiliations

    • Hitachi Software Engineering Co., Ltd., Tokyo 140-0002, Japan
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  • Yoshiya Fukuma

      Affiliations

    • Hitachi Software Engineering Co., Ltd., Tokyo 140-0002, Japan
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  • Kenji Yamamoto

      Affiliations

    • Hitachi Software Engineering Co., Ltd., Tokyo 140-0002, Japan
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  • Takahito Oki

      Affiliations

    • Department of Legal Medicine, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Nagano 390-8621, Japan
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  • Hideki Asamura

      Affiliations

    • Department of Legal Medicine, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Nagano 390-8621, Japan
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  • Hirofumi Fukushima

      Affiliations

    • National Research Institute of Police Science, Chiba 277-0882, Japan

Received 17 August 2009 ,Revised 22 December 2009 ,Accepted 27 December 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2009.12.004

Legal Medicine
Volume 12, Issue 2 , Pages 84-89 , March 2010

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