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International Journal of Legal Medicine

Issue 1/2016

Content (35 Articles)

Guidelines

Padova Charter on personal injury and damage under civil-tort law

Santo Davide Ferrara, Eric Baccino, Rafael Boscolo-Berto, Giovanni Comandè, Ranieri Domenici, Claudio Hernandez-Cueto, Mete Korkut Gulmen, George Mendelson, Massimo Montisci, Gian Aristide Norelli, Vilma Pinchi, Mohammed Ranavaya, Dina A. Shokry, Vera Sterzik, Yvo Vermylen, Duarte Nuno Vieira, Guido Viel, Riccardo Zoja

Guidelines

Whiplash-Associated Disorders

S. D. Ferrara, V. Ananian, E. Baccino, P. Banczerowski, D. Bordignon, R. Boscolo-Berto, R. Domenici, J. Gorriz Quevedo, M. Graw, W. Hell, C. Hernandez Cueto, P. J. T. Knudsen, S. Masiero, M. Montisci, G. A. Norelli, V. Pinchi, R. Raudys, J. S. Raul, V. Sterzik, E. Tessitore, J. Tuusov, P. Vanezis, Y. Vermylen, D. N. Vieira, G. Viel, A. Viero, E. Villanueva, R. Zoia

Original Article

Tri-allelic patterns at the D7S820 locus detected in two generations of a Chinese family

Erlie Jiang, Jie Pan, Mingzhe Han, Liang Chen, Qiaoling Ma, Jialin Wei, Yong Huang, Sizhou Feng, Qin Sun, Peili Xiao, Zhongzheng Zheng

Original Article

A single-tube 27-plex SNP assay for estimating individual ancestry and admixture from three continents

Yi-Liang Wei, Li Wei, Lei Zhao, Qi-Fan Sun, Li Jiang, Tao Zhang, Hai-Bo Liu, Jian-Gang Chen, Jian Ye, Lan Hu, Cai-Xia Li

Original Article

Exclusion probabilities and likelihood ratios with applications to mixtures

Klaas-Jan Slooten, Thore Egeland

Open Access Original Article

Genetic screening in sudden cardiac death in the young can save future lives

Eva-Lena Stattin, Ida Maria Westin, Kristina Cederquist, Jenni Jonasson, Björn-Anders Jonsson, Stellan Mörner, Anna Norberg, Peter Krantz, Aase Wisten

Original Article

Whole mitochondrial genome genetic diversity in an Estonian population sample

Monika Stoljarova, Jonathan L. King, Maiko Takahashi, Anu Aaspõllu, Bruce Budowle

Original Article

Inference of biogeographical ancestry across central regions of Eurasia

O. Bulbul, G. Filoglu, T. Zorlu, H. Altuncul, A. Freire-Aradas, J. Söchtig, Y. Ruiz, M. Klintschar, S. Triki-Fendri, A. Rebai, C. Phillips, M. V. Lareu, Á. Carracedo, P. M. Schneider

Original Article

Genotyping of 75 SNPs using arrays for individual identification in five population groups

Hsiao-Lin Hwa, Lawrence Shih Hsin Wu, Chun-Yen Lin, Tsun-Ying Huang, Hsiang-I Yin, Li-Hui Tseng, James Chun-I Lee

Original Article

Next-generation sequencing of 100 candidate genes in young victims of suspected sudden cardiac death with structural abnormalities of the heart

C. L. Hertz, S. L. Christiansen, L. Ferrero-Miliani, M. Dahl, P. E. Weeke, G. L. Ottesen, R. Frank-Hansen, H. Bundgaard, N. Morling

Original Article

Sex-specific age association with primary DNA transfer

Panayiotis Manoli, Antonis Antoniou, Evy Bashiardes, Stavroulla Xenophontos, Marinos Photiades, Vaso Stribley, Michalis Mylona, Christiana Demetriou, Marios A. Cariolou

Original Article

Kinship analysis: assessment of related vs unrelated based on defined pedigrees

Stefania Turrina, Melissa Ferrian, Stefano Caratti, Emanuela Cosentino, Domenico De Leo

Short Communication

DNA transfer—a never ending story. A study on scenarios involving a second person as carrier

Janine Helmus, Thomas Bajanowski, Micaela Poetsch

Review

The pharmacology and toxicology of kratom: from traditional herb to drug of abuse

Marcus L. Warner, Nellie C. Kaufman, Oliver Grundmann

Original Article

Rapid elimination of Carboxy-THC in a cohort of chronic cannabis users

John Lewis, Anna Molnar, David Allsop, Jan Copeland, Shanlin Fu

Original Article

Are mast cells implicated in asphyxia?

Barbara Muciaccia, Cristina Sestili, Stefania De Grossi, Annarita Vestri, Luigi Cipolloni, Rossana Cecchi

Original Article

Detection of satellite cells during skeletal muscle wound healing in rats: time-dependent expressions of Pax7 and MyoD in relation to wound age

Zhi-Ling Tian, Shu-Kun Jiang, Miao Zhang, Meng Wang, Jiao-Yong Li, Rui Zhao, Lin-Lin Wang, Shan-Shan Li, Min Liu, Meng-Zhou Zhang, Da-Wei Guan

Case Report

Two fatal tiger attacks in zoos

Britta Tantius, Daniel Wittschieber, Sven Schmidt, Markus A. Rothschild, Sibylle Banaschak

Original Article

Postmortem CT versus forensic autopsy: frequent discrepancies of tracheobronchial content findings

Wolf-Dieter Zech, Christian Jackowski, Nicole Schwendener, Eva Brencicova, Frederick Schuster, Paolo Lombardo

Original Article

The persistence of epiphyseal scars in the distal radius in adult individuals

Catriona Davies, Lucina Hackman, Sue Black

Original Article

Age estimation based on aspartic acid racemization in human sclera

Karolin Klumb, Christian Matzenauer, Alexandra Reckert, Klaus Lehmann, Stefanie Ritz-Timme

Original Article

Forensic age diagnostics using projection radiography of the clavicle: a prospective multi-center validation study

Daniel Wittschieber, Christian Ottow, Ronald Schulz, Klaus Püschel, Thomas Bajanowski, Frank Ramsthaler, Heidi Pfeiffer, Volker Vieth, Sven Schmidt, Andreas Schmeling

Open Access Original Article

Effect of body mass and clothing on carrion entomofauna

Szymon Matuszewski, Katarzyna Frątczak, Szymon Konwerski, Daria Bajerlein, Krzysztof Szpila, Mateusz Jarmusz, Michał Szafałowicz, Andrzej Grzywacz, Anna Mądra

Original Article

Assessing the effects of tooth loss in adult crania using geometric morphometrics

Candice Small, Desiré Brits, Jason Hemingway

Original Article

Estimation of Purkait’s triangle method and alternative models for sex assessment from the proximal femur in the Spanish population

Mirjana Djorojevic, Concepción Roldán, Miguel Botella, Inmaculada Alemán

Original Article

Carcass mass has little influence on the structure of gravesoil microbial communities

Sophie Weiss, David O. Carter, Jessica L. Metcalf, Rob Knight

Original Article

The biology and ecology of Necrodes littoralis, a species of forensic interest in Europe

Damien Charabidze, Benoît Vincent, Thierry Pasquerault, Valéry Hedouin

Original Article

The formation of adipocere in model aquatic environments

B. H. Stuart, S. J. Notter, B. Dent, J. Selvalatchmanan, S. Fu

Method Paper

Histological determination of the human origin from dry bone: a cautionary note for subadults

Giulia Caccia, Francesca Magli, Veronica Maria Tagi, Davide Guido Ampelio Porta, Marco Cummaudo, Nicholas Márquez-Grant, Cristina Cattaneo

Publisher's Erratum

Erratum to: High-resolution mass spectrometric determination of the synthetic cannabinoids MAM-2201, AM-1220, AM-2232, and their metabolites in postmortem plasma and urine by LC/Q-TOFMS

Kei Zaitsu, Hiroshi Nakayama, Mayumi Yamanaka, Kazuaki Hisatsune, Kentaro Taki, Tomomi Asano, Tooru Kamata, Munehiro Katagi, Yumi Hayashi, Maiko Kusano, Hitoshi Tsuchihashi, Akira Ishii