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The advances in the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) development enables a great discrimination in analysis of forensic traces. Samples such as bloodstains and semen stains can be identified, but it also allows to have a great information about forensic samples that contain a limited amount of DNA, such as single hair, salival cells in cigarette ends, stamps or envelopes and skin residues found in nails although they were old samples with degraded DNA.
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Fernández, R., Ramírez, E., Crespillo, M., Luque, J.A., García, P., Valverde, J.L. (1996). Forensic use of PCR DNA Analysis in Hairs, Envelopes and Cigarette Ends. In: Carracedo, A., Brinkmann, B., Bär, W. (eds) 16th Congress of the International Society for Forensic Haemogenetics (Internationale Gesellschaft für forensische Hämogenetik e.V.), Santiago de Compostela, 12–16 September 1995. Advances in Forensic Haemogenetics, vol 6. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-80029-0_77
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