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ArticleInternational journal of legal medicine2009

One person with two DNA profiles: a(nother) case of mosaicism or chimerism.

Vincent Castella, Maria del Mar Lesta, Patrice Mangin

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Article in International journal of legal medicine, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 26% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. An unusual observation of tetragametic chimerism: forensic aspects.International journal of legal medicine · 2009
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Vincent CastellaUnité de Génétique Forensique, Centre Universitaire Romand de Médecine Légale, rue du Bugnon 21, 1011, Lausanne, Switzerland. Vincent.Castella@chuv.ch
Maria del Mar Lesta
Patrice Mangin
Hôpital Orthopédique de la Suisse Romande · CH

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nuclear DNA markers, such as short tandem repeats (STR), are widely used for crime investigation and paternity testing. STR were used to determine whether a piece of tissue regurgitated by a dog was part of the penis of a dead, emasculated, man. Unexpectedly, when analyzing the recovered material and a blood sample from the deceased, five out of the 18 loci differed. According to the results, one could have concluded that these samples originated from two different persons. However, taking into account contextual information and data from complementary genetic analyses, the most likely hypothesis was that the deceased was a genetic mosaic or a chimera. Within a forensic genetic context, such genetic peculiarities may prevent associating the perpetrator of an offense with a stain left at a crime scene or lead to false paternity exclusions. Fast recognition of mosaics or chimeras, adapted sampling scheme, as well as careful interpretation of the data should allow avoiding such pitfalls.

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ChimerismDNA FingerprintingMosaicismTandem Repeat SequencesAged, 80 and overAnimalsDNADogsForensic GeneticsHumansMalePenisPolymerase Chain ReactionDNA

Identifiers

PMID19241086
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