Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Ohshima, T
• Haas, H
• Prinz, M
• Staak, M
• Berghaus, G

Titel

Possibilities of DNA sex determination in hair roots

Ist Teil von

• Archiv fur Kriminologie, 1990-05, Vol.185 (5-6), p.163

Ort / Verlag

Germany

Erscheinungsjahr

1990

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Species- and sex-determination on hair roots were simultaneously performed using extracted DNA and a human Y chromosomespecific probe. (pH Y 2.1) After Southern hybridization, Hae III-digested DNA fragments were detected by non-radioactive digoxigenin detection system. DNA was extracted from one to five freshly plucked hair roots. The specific 2.12 kb fragment was successfully detected in male DNA samples from a single hair root. A positive identification of female DNA was more difficult. The hair root DNA was revealed to be stable at room temperature for at least 2 weeks (examination time) and produced the same specific band pattern as the DNA of fresh hair roots. In the blind tests with DNA samples from randomly plucked one to four hair roots, the rate of successful sex-determination was 95.8% on male samples (23 out of 24 samples) and 25% on female samples (4 out of 16 samples).