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DNA typing is a common technique in Forensic sciences used for the characterisation of body fluids. The analysis of genomic DNA may be limited if DNA is highly degraded or in low abundance (rootless hair and bones for example). On the other hand some biological tools (such as anti sera) could be used to exclude human origin but few could easily establish the animal origin. Mitochondrial DNA could be used to overcome these problems. Indeed mitochondrial DNA is composed of different areas, two of which are particulary interesting: the first one encodes the cytochrome b gene and show interspecies mutations. Amplification and sequencing of this region allows us to determine the animal origin (this technique is licenced from BioID compagny — St John’s Canada). The second one encodes hypervariable regions with point mutations differing from one individual to another. We make routine use of these two techniques to resolve Forensic caseworks.
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Tesson, C. et al. (1996). Routine Mitochondrial DNA Identification. In: Carracedo, A., Brinkmann, B., Bär, W. (eds) 16th Congress of the International Society for Forensic Haemogenetics (Internationale Gesellschaft für forensische Hämogenetik e.V.), Santiago de Compostela, 12–16 September 1995. Advances in Forensic Haemogenetics, vol 6. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-80029-0_9
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