A customized protocol to generate STR profiles from latent fingerprints

For decades, dactyloscopical and DNA analyses have both played a key role in forensic investigations involving friction skin patterns and/or human biological material. In many occasions, friction ridge impressions may hold little discriminatory power due to low quality of ridge patterns and/or insufficient area extension of such patterns. In these cases, an appropriate human DNA collection and a high-quality DNA extraction become crucial steps to yield a genetic identity from an unsuitable latent fingerprint pattern.
Source: Forensic Science International: Genetics Supplement Series - Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: Source Type: research