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Citation

Wong H, Mihalovich J. J. Forensic Sci. 2019; 64(2): 539-550.

Affiliation

Oakland Police Department Criminalistics Laboratory, 455 7th Street, #608, Oakland, CA, 94607.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, American Society for Testing and Materials, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/1556-4029.13877

PMID

30044890

Abstract

Sexual assault evidence samples require the use of a specific process known as a differential digestion to separate sperm from nonsperm cells prior to DNA extraction. An automated differential digestion process was developed using a selective degradation technique, which uses DNase I to digest the remaining nonsperm DNA in the sperm fraction. The use of DNase on pristine samples, as well as aged and degraded samples, was assessed to ensure that the quantity and quality of the sperm DNA were not compromised or adversely affected. Samples processed using the selective degradation technique yielded comparable DNA yield and DNA typing data to the conventional differential digestion process. The automated process utilized 96-well plates for high throughput and incorporated microscope slide preparations for confirmation of sperm. It reduced processing time by about sixfold and was paramount in the elimination of the Oakland Police Department Criminalistics Laboratory's sexual assault kit backlog.

© 2018 American Academy of Forensic Sciences.


Language: en

Keywords

DNA analysis; DNase; VERSA 1100; automation; differential digestion; differential extraction; forensic science; robotics; selective degradation; sexual assault evidence kit

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