Recovery of DNA and fingerprints from touched documents

Jonathan Sewell; Ignacio Quinones; Carole Ames; Bryan Multaney; Stuart Curtis; Haj Seeboruth; Stephen Moore; Barbara Daniel

doi:10.1016/j.fsigen.2008.03.006

Recovery of DNA and fingerprints from touched documents

Jonathan Sewell, Ignacio Quinones, Carole Ames, Bryan Multaney, Stuart Curtis, Haj Seeboruth, Stephen Moore, Barbara Daniel

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This study investigated the various factors affecting DNA profiling from DNA recovered from fingerprints deposited oil paper before and after fingerprint enhancement treatments. The DNeasy(R) plant mini kit (QIAGEN(R)) was found to improve DNA recovery from paper by over 150% compared with the QIAamp(R) mini kit. A significant decrease in the amount of DNA recovered was observed following treatment with DFO and/or Ninhydrin. This decrease in yield (lid not have a comparably significant effect on the quality of the SGM Plus(TM) profiles. Furthermore, this study found that whilst certain paper types, such as newspaper, magazine and filter paper allowed for the good recovery of DNA, common office paper and white card, strongly interfered with the recovery of DNA resulting in poor quality profiles. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	281 - 285
Number of pages	5
Journal	Forensic Science International-Genetics
Volume	2
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsigen.2008.03.006
Publication status	Published - Sept 2008

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