ArticleInternational journal of legal medicine2019
Persistence of DNA in the Singapore context.
Article in International journal of legal medicine, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Navigating uncertainty in museum workflows: genomic data mining and curation of the Diptera collections hosted at RMCA.Biodiversity data journal · 2025Article
- Effect of temperature and humidity on insect DNA integrity evaluated by real-time PCR.Journal of economic entomology · 2024Article
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- Detection of invisible biological traces in relation to the physicochemical properties of substrates surfaces in forensic casework.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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- A synthetic fingerprint solution and its importance in DNA transfer, persistence and recovery studies.Forensic science international. Synergy · 2023Article
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Abstract
The relevance and not merely the presence of one's DNA at a crime scene has become the emerging issue in courtrooms all over the world today. By studying the length of time DNA is likely to persist in an environment until detection, a more holistic assessment of DNA evidence in the context of a case can be made. The current study looks at the persistence of DNA from blood, keratinocytes, and several types of mock exhibits under various conditions, in the tropical rainforest climate of Singapore. While DNA on articles left outdoors showed highly variable persistence subject to the presence of rainfall, DNA from items placed indoors at ambient temperature and under controlled temperature and humidity is comparatively stable. The information gathered from this study, while not exhaustive, serves to provide investigators and the courts with a better understanding of the relevance of DNA recovered from crime scenes of different environmental conditions.
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