Legal Medicine
Volume 14, Issue 1 , Pages 40-46 , January 2012

Evaluation of multiple transfer of DNA using mock case scenarios

  • Mariya Goray

      Affiliations

    • Victoria Police Forensic Service Centre, 31 Forensic Drive, VIC 3085, Australia
    • Department of Genetics and Human Variation, La Trobe University, VIC 3086, Australia
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Victoria Police Forensic Service Centre, 31 Forensic Drive, VIC 3085, Australia. Tel.: +64 3 94503444.
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  • John R. Mitchell

      Affiliations

    • Department of Genetics and Human Variation, La Trobe University, VIC 3086, Australia
    • ,
  • Roland A.H. van Oorschot

      Affiliations

    • Victoria Police Forensic Service Centre, 31 Forensic Drive, VIC 3085, Australia

Received 17 August 2011 ,Accepted 21 September 2011.

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doi: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2011.09.006

Legal Medicine
Volume 14, Issue 1 , Pages 40-46 , January 2012

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