Issue 4/2020
Content (41 Articles)
Inside the lungs of COVID-19 disease
Diego Aguiar, Johannes Alexander Lobrinus, Manuel Schibler, Tony Fracasso, Christelle Lardi
Dying with SARS-CoV-2 infection—an autopsy study of the first consecutive 80 cases in Hamburg, Germany
Carolin Edler, Ann Sophie Schröder, Martin Aepfelbacher, Antonia Fitzek, Axel Heinemann, Fabian Heinrich, Anke Klein, Felicia Langenwalder, Marc Lütgehetmann, Kira Meißner, Klaus Püschel, Julia Schädler, Stefan Steurer, Herbert Mushumba, Jan-Peter Sperhake
Gross and histopathological pulmonary findings in a COVID-19 associated death during self-isolation
Christine Suess, Roland Hausmann
Massive parallel sequencing in forensics: advantages, issues, technicalities, and prospects
David Ballard, Jakub Winkler-Galicki, Joanna Wesoły
Brother-brother or father-son? How a dropout of AmelX may facilitate the elucidation of a familial relationship
Barbara Karolina Zajac, Stefanie Scheiper, Richard Zehner, Tina Jenewein, Melanie Weissenberger
Kashmiris phylogenetic depictions through uniparental and biparental genetic markers
Rukhsana Perveen, Ahmad Ali Shahid, Muhammad Shafique, Muhammad Shehzad, Muhammad Akram
Population data of 23 Y chromosome STR loci for the five major human subpopulations of Ghana
Abban Edward Kofi, Hashom Mohd Hakim, Hussein Omar Khan, Siti Afifah Ismail, Anita Ghansah, Agyemang Adjem David, Nor Fazila Che Mat, Geoffrey Keith Chambers, Hisham Atan Edinur
Forensic parameters and allele frequency distributions of 16 STR in a Paraguayan population
Tamara Soledad Frontanilla, Weslley Motoi Tsutsumida, Antonin Théo Jacques Charmeux, Elza Araujo Torres, Carlos Ferreira dos Santos, Ricardo Henrique Alves da Silva
Forensic effectiveness and genetic distribution of 20 non-CODIS STRs and D3S1358 in Guangdong Han population
Hanhui Peng, Xiaopeng Li, Ting Yao, Hongyan Huang, Cheng Xiao, Weibin Wu, Ling Chen
Evaluation of genetic polymorphism at 20 autosomal STR loci in Rajput population of Himachal Pradesh, India
Vivek Sahajpal, Abhishek Singh, Mukesh Thakur, Arun Sharma, Kailash Chandra, Shivkant Sharma
Haplotype diversity of 17 Y-STRs in Sheikh population of Punjab
Muhammad Adeel Aslam, Manzoor Hussain, Khushbukhat Khan, Fatima Tuz Zahra, Muhammad Shafique, Shahzadi Javeed
Forensic effectiveness and genetic distribution of 23 autosomal STRs included in Verifiler PlusTM multiplex in a population sample from Madhya Pradesh, India
Pankaj Shrivastava, Kamlesh Kaitholia, R. K. Kumawat, Shivani Dixit, Hirak Ranjan Dash, Ankit Srivastava, Yash Baroniya, Aditi Mishra, Pushpesh Kushwaha, Manisha Rana, Akansha Dixit, Tanya Sarawagi, Alay Bhatt, Harsh Sharma, Moumita Sinha, Gyaneshwer Chaubey
Assessment of genetic polymorphism at 20 autosomal STR loci in scheduled caste population of Himachal Pradesh
Vivek Sahajpal, Abhishek Singh, Mukesh Thakur, Arun Sharma, Kailash Chandra, Satish Kumar
Allelic frequencies of fifteen autosomal STRs in the northeastern Thai people
Kanha Muisuk, Suparat Srithawong, Wibhu Kutanan
Genetic polymorphism of Y-chromosomal STRs in Gujjar population of Punjab
Fatima Tuz Zahra, Manzoor Hussain, Khushbukhat Khan, Muhammad Adeel Aslam, Muhammad Shafique, Aqsa Rubab, Shahzadi Javeed
Population data for 23 Y chromosome STR loci using the Powerplex® Y23 STR kit for the Kedayan population in Malaysia
Hashom Mohd Hakim, Hussein Omar Khan, Siti Afifah Ismail, Japareng Lalung, Abban Edward Kofi, Bryan Raveen Nelson, Mohd Tajuddin Abdullah, Geoffrey Keith Chambers, Hisham Atan Edinur
Pitfalls of toxicological investigations in hair, bones, and nails in extensively decomposed bodies: illustration with two cases
Jean-François Wiart, Florian Hakim, Aude Andry, Céline Eiden, Guillaume Drevin, Bénédicte Lelièvre, Clotilde Rougé-Maillart, Marie Decourcelle, Anne-Sophie Lemaire-Hurtel, Delphine Allorge, Jean-Michel Gaulier
Widespread septic embolization in injection drug use mitro-aortic infective endocarditis as a remote cause of death
Federico Manetti, Matteo Scopetti, Alessandro Santurro, Lara Consoloni, Stefano D’Errico
Lesions and characteristic injury patterns caused by high-voltage fault arcs
F. Zack, H. Schau, A. Dalchow, M. Rock, V. Blaas, Andreas Büttner
A field study to evaluate PMI estimation methods for advanced decomposition stages
Stefan Pittner, Valentina Bugelli, Katharina Weitgasser, Angela Zissler, Sangob Sanit, Lena Lutz, Fabio Monticelli, Carlo P. Campobasso, Peter Steinbacher, Jens Amendt
Diatomological mapping of water bodies in Chongqing section of the Yangtze River and Jialing River
Li Zhang, Qianyun Nie, Yalei Dai, Shisheng Zhu, Jinbao Wang, Wei Wang, Xiaobo Tan, Peng Zhang, Jianbo Li
The ballistic performance of bone when impacted by fragments
A. J. Caister, D. J. Carr, P. D. Campbell, F. Brock, J. Breeze
The effects of crossbow impacts onto a common automotive vehicle side window—a preliminary study
R. Critchley, K. Standbridge, A. Peare
Pedestrian hit by a car impacted metal pole: reconstructing the head load
R Wagner, H. Muggenthaler, S. Sauer, G. Mall, M. Hubig
Shooting through windscreens: ballistic injury assessment using a surrogate head model—two case reports
Peter F. Mahoney, Debra J. Carr, Russell J. Delaney, Iain E. Gibb
Baggage scanners and their use as an imaging resource in mass fatality incidents
Genevra D’Arcy, Nicholas Márquez-Grant, David W. Lane
Transverse process fractures of the thoracic vertebrae—the significance of this injury in the context of medicolegal opinions on high-energy trauma cases
Aleksandra Borowska-Solonynko, Victoria Prokopowicz
Using micro-computed tomography to examine the larynx in cases of suspected strangulation—a comparison of case findings and control images
Waltraud Baier, Brian A. Burnett, Mark Payne, Jason M. Warnett, Mark A. Williams
The effect of different imaging techniques for the visualisation of evidence in court on jury comprehension
D. Errickson, H. Fawcett, T. J. U. Thompson, A. Campbell
Added value of post-mortem computed tomography (PMCT) to clinical findings for cause of death determination in adult “natural deaths”
M. E. M. Vester, R. R. van Rijn, W. L. J. M. Duijst, L. F. M. Beenen, M. Clerkx, R. J. Oostra
Fracture patterns of the hyoid-larynx complex after fatal trauma on the neck: retrospective radiological postmortem analysis of 284 cases
Henri M. de Bakker, Moritz V. Warmbrunn, Peggy van den Biggelaar, Vidija Soerdjbalie-Maikoe, Bernadette S. de Bakker
The four-minute approach revisited: accelerating MRI-based multi-factorial age estimation
Bernhard Neumayer, Andreas Lesch, Franz Thaler, Thomas Widek, Sebastian Tschauner, Jannick De Tobel, Thomas Ehammer, Barbara Kirnbauer, Julian Boldt, Mayonne van Wijk, Rudolf Stollberger, Martin Urschler
Retrospective analysis of 172 cases of custodial deaths in China between 1999 and 2016: forensic experience in China
Shifan Wu, Liang Ren, Meichen Pan, Xingang Qiu, Zijiao Ding, Yunyun Wang, Liang Liu, Qian Liu
Protocol for evaluating women with female genital mutilation seeking asylum
Jaclyn M. Muñoz, Jasjit Beausang, Emily Finley, Sandra Wolf
Maximum tensile stress and strain of skin of the domestic pig—differences concerning pigs from organic and non-organic farming
Sylvia Schick, Miriam Leiderer, Felicitas Lanzl, Matthias Graw, Steffen Peldschus
A new tool for identifying risk of repeated intimate partner violence adjusted for the population of Montenegro: a cohort study
N. Radojevic, B. Vukcevic, S. Begic, D. Vuksanovic Stankovic, S. V. Subramanian
New methods for sex estimation using sternum and rib morphology
Smadar Peleg, Ruth Pelleg Kallevag, Gali Dar, Nili Steinberg, Youssef Masharawi, Hila May
Development and validation of forensically useful growth models for Central European population of Creophilus maxillosus L. (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)
Katarzyna Frątczak-Łagiewska, Andrzej Grzywacz, Szymon Matuszewski
Correction to: Development and validation of forensically useful growth models for central European population of Creophilus maxillosus L. (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)
Katarzyna Frątczak-Łagiewska, Andrzej Grzywacz, Szymon Matuszewski
Correction to: Development and forensic validation of human genomic DNA quantification kit
Jeongyong Kim, Ju Yeon Jung, So Yeun Kwon, Pilwon Kang, Hyunchul Park, Ki Min Seong, Tae ue Kim, Hyun Kyu Yoon, Si-Keun Lim