1. The German Stain Commission: recommendations for the interpretation of mixed stains

   • P. M. Schneider
   • R. Fimmers
   • B. Brinkmann

   Review Article 05 July 2008 Pages: 1 - 5

2. Differential diagnosis between freshwater drowning and saltwater drowning based on intrapulmonary aquaporin-5 expression

   • Takahito Hayashi
   • Yuko Ishida
   • Toshikazu Kondo

   Original Article 06 May 2008 Pages: 7 - 13

   

3. Genomic complexity of the Y-STR DYS19: inversions, deletions and founder lineages carrying duplications

   • Patricia Balaresque
   • Emma J. Parkin
   • Mark A. Jobling

   Original Article Open access 14 June 2008 Pages: 15 - 23

   

4. Sex determination from the foramen magnum: discriminant function analysis in an eighteenth and nineteenth century British sample

   • René Gapert
   • Sue Black
   • Jason Last

   Original Article 14 June 2008 Pages: 25 - 33

   

5. Assignment of unknown persons to their geographical origin by determination of stable isotopes in hair samples

   • Elisabeth Mützel (Rauch)
   • Christine Lehn
   • Andreas Roßmann

   Original Article 24 September 2008 Pages: 35 - 40

   

6. Current recommendations on infants’ sleeping position are being followed—initial results of a population-based sentinel study on risk factors for SIDS, 1996–2006, in Hamburg, Germany

   • Jan P. Sperhake
   • Ines Zimmermann
   • Klaus Püschel

   Original Article 19 November 2008 Pages: 41 - 45

   

7. Histiocytoid cardiomyopathy and ventricular non-compaction in a case of sudden death in a female infant

   • Erik Edston
   • Nasrin Perskvist

   Case Report 30 April 2008 Pages: 47 - 53

   

8. Marfan syndrome: clinical consequences resulting from a medicolegal autopsy of a case of sudden death due to aortic rupture

   • M. Klintschar
   • U. Bilkenroth
   • D. Stiller

   Case Report Open access 17 October 2008 Pages: 55 - 58

   

9. Partial matches in heterogeneous offender databases do not call into question the validity of random match probability calculations

   • Bruce Budowle
   • F. Samuel Baechtel
   • Ranajit Chakraborty

   Technical Note 06 May 2008 Pages: 59 - 63

   

10. The Microbial Rosetta Stone: a database system for tracking infectious microorganisms

    • Kumar L. Hari
    • Alan T. Goates
    • Bruce Budowle

    Technical Note 08 July 2008 Pages: 65 - 69

    

11. New markers for old stains: stable mRNA markers for blood and saliva identification from up to 16-year-old stains

    • Dmitry Zubakov
    • Mieke Kokshoorn
    • Manfred Kayser

    Technical Note Open access 02 July 2008 Pages: 71 - 74

    

12. Non-invasive prenatal paternity testing from maternal blood

    • Jasenka Wagner
    • Snježana Džijan
    • Gordan Lauc

    Technical Note 24 October 2008 Pages: 75 - 79

    

13. Allele frequencies of 11 X-chromosomal loci in a population sample from Ghana

    • Micaela Poetsch
    • Daniela El-Mostaqim
    • Nicole von Wurmb-Schwark

    Short Communication 08 July 2008 Pages: 81 - 83

14. Haplotype analysis of two X-chromosome STR clusters in the Pakistani population

    • Muhammad Akram Tariq
    • Muhammad Farooq Sabir
    • Sheikh Riazuddin

    Short Communication 15 November 2008 Pages: 85 - 87

15. An INDEL polymorphism at the X-STR GATA172D05 flanking region

    • Elzemar Martins Ribeiro Rodrigues
    • Ney Pereira Carneiro dos Santos
    • Sidney Emanuel Batista dos Santos

    Short Communication 02 December 2008 Pages: 89 - 94