Citation

Liu Y, Xu MM, Zhang Y, Liu SQ, Yuan MQ, Jia ZJ. Fa Yi Xue Za Zhi 2022; 38(6): 774-782.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2022, Si fa bu Si fa jian ding ke xue ji shu yan jiu suo)

DOI

10.12116/j.issn.1004-5619.2021.511101

PMID

36914394

Abstract

In recent years, sexual assault cases have been on the rise, seriously infringing the legitimate rights and interests of women and children, causing widespread concern in society. DNA evidence has become the key evidence to prove the facts in sexual assault cases, but lack of DNA evidence or only DNA evidence in some sexual assault cases leads to unclear facts and insufficient evidence. With the emergence of high-throughput sequencing technology and the development of bioinformatics and artificial intelligence, new progress has been made in the study of human microbiome. Researchers have begun to use human microbiome for difficult sexual assault cases indentification. This paper reviews the characteristics of human microbiome, and its application value in the inferences of the body fluid stain origin, the sexual assault method, the crime time, etc. In addition, the challenges faced by the application of the human microbiome in practical case handling, the solutions and future development potential are analyzed and prospected.

Language: zh

Keywords

Child; Humans; Female; sexual assault; *Sex Offenses; review; forensic medicine; Forensic Medicine/methods; *Crime Victims; *Microbiota; Artificial Intelligence; body fluid; DNA; microbial genomics; microbiology