1. Effects of the Ion PGM™ Hi-Q™ sequencing chemistry on sequence data quality

   • Jennifer D. Churchill
   • Jonathan L. King
   • Bruce Budowle

   Original Article 30 March 2016 Pages: 1169 - 1180

   

2. Detection of a G>C single nucleotide polymorphism within a repetitive DNA sequence by high-resolution DNA melting

   • Ulrike Schmidt
   • Johannes Hulkkonen
   • Jana Naue

   Short Communication 14 March 2016 Pages: 1181 - 1184

   

3. A genetic portrait of Oraon Indian tribe drawn with 15 autosomal and 17 Y chromosomal STR markers

   • Pankaj Shrivastava
   • Toshi Jain
   • V. B. Trivedi

   Population Data 04 February 2016 Pages: 1185 - 1186

4. Population genetic analysis of the GlobalFiler STR loci in 748 individuals from the Kazakh population of Xinjiang in northwest China

   • Honghua Zhang
   • Shuping Yang
   • Shilin Li

   Population Data 04 February 2016 Pages: 1187 - 1189

   

5. Analysis of 27 Y-chromosomal STR haplotypes in a Han population of Henan province, Central China

   • Rufeng Bai
   • Yaju Liu
   • MS. Shi

   Population Data 01 March 2016 Pages: 1191 - 1194

   

6. Population data of 17 short tandem repeat loci in 2923 individuals from the Han population of Nantong in East China

   • Min Yang
   • Liming Li
   • Shilin Li

   Population Data 01 March 2016 Pages: 1195 - 1197

7. 24 Y-chromosomal STR haplotypic structure for Chinese Kazak ethnic group and its genetic relationships with other groups

   • Ting Mei
   • Li-Ping Zhang
   • Bo-Feng Zhu

   Population Data 16 April 2016 Pages: 1199 - 1201

8. Mutations of short tandem repeat loci in cases of paternity testing in Chinese

   • Mao Sun
   • XiaoNan Zhang
   • ShanMin Fu

   Letter to the Editor 30 July 2015 Pages: 1203 - 1204

9. Assessing the exclusionary power of paternity tests involving a pair of alleged parents

   • Jian Huang
   • JinHong Cai

   Letter to the Editor 30 December 2015 Pages: 1205 - 1207

10. Fatal toxicity index of medicinal drugs based on a comprehensive toxicology database

    • Ilkka Ojanperä
    • Pirkko Kriikku
    • Erkki Vuori

    Original Article 17 March 2016 Pages: 1209 - 1216

11. A suicide involving intraperitoneal injection of pentobarbital

    • Sarah Hangartner
    • Jasmin Steiner
    • Thomas Briellmann

    Case Report 15 July 2015 Pages: 1217 - 1222

    

12. Is it worth carrying out determination of n-butane in postmortem samples? A case report and a comprehensive review of the literature

    • Souleiman El Balkhi
    • Caroline Coutaz-Fluck
    • Jean-Michel Gaulier

    Case Report 12 September 2015 Pages: 1223 - 1229

13. Fatal methadone intoxication in an infant listed as a homicide

    • Alessandro Bonsignore
    • Angelo Groppi
    • Cristian Palmiere

    Case Report 26 October 2015 Pages: 1231 - 1235

14. Death within 44 days of 2,4-dinitrophenol intake

    • Fred Zack
    • Verena Blaas
    • Andreas Büttner

    Case Report 11 May 2016 Pages: 1237 - 1241

    

15. Do multiple temperature measurements improve temperature-based death time estimation? The information degradation inequality

    • M. Hubig
    • H. Muggenthaler
    • G. Mall

    Original Article 12 February 2016 Pages: 1243 - 1251

16. Tongue protrusion in burned bodies

    • Michael Bohnert
    • Petr Hejna

    Original Article 17 March 2016 Pages: 1253 - 1255

17. Micro-CT features of intermediate gunshot wounds covered by textiles

    • Chiara Giraudo
    • Paolo Fais
    • Santo Davide Ferrara

    Original Article 20 June 2016 Pages: 1257 - 1264

    

18. Early markers for myocardial ischemia and sudden cardiac death

    • Sara Sabatasso
    • Patrice Mangin
    • Valentin Djonov

    Original Article 08 July 2016 Pages: 1265 - 1280

    

19. Acute pulmonary emphysema in death by hanging: a morphometric digital study

    • Claudia Castiglioni
    • Pia Baumann
    • Tony Fracasso

    Original Article 22 July 2016 Pages: 1281 - 1285

    

20. Influence of pellet seating on the external ballistic parameters of spring-piston air guns

    • Ronald Werner
    • Benno Schultz
    • Matthias Frank

    Original Article 23 July 2016 Pages: 1287 - 1290

    

21. Sudden death following accidental ingestion of a button battery by a 17-month-old child: a case study

    • T. Guinet
    • J. M. Gaulier
    • G. Maujean

    Case Report 17 February 2016 Pages: 1291 - 1297

    

22. Precise survival time and physical activity after fatal left ventricle injury from sharp pointed weapon: a case report and a review of the literature

    • Angélique Franchi
    • Martin Kolopp
    • Laurent Martrille

    Case Report 25 February 2016 Pages: 1299 - 1301

23. PCR-based identification of drowning: four case reports

    • Evelin Rácz
    • Franciska Könczöl
    • Katalin Sipos

    Case Report 14 April 2016 Pages: 1303 - 1307

24. The cardiothoracic ratio on post-mortem computer tomography

    • M. Jotterand
    • F. Doenz
    • K. Michaud

    Original Article 17 February 2016 Pages: 1309 - 1313

    

25. A novel method for pair-matching using three-dimensional digital models of bone: mesh-to-mesh value comparison

    • Mara A. Karell
    • Helen K. Langstaff
    • Elena F. Kranioti

    Original Article Open access 10 March 2016 Pages: 1315 - 1322

    

26. Evaluation of post-mortem lateral cerebral ventricle changes using sequential scans during post-mortem computed tomography

    • Iwao Hasegawa
    • Akinobu Shimizu
    • Axel Heinemann

    Original Article Open access 05 April 2016 Pages: 1323 - 1328

    

27. Search and removal of radioactive seeds: another application of postmortem computed tomography prior to autopsy

    • Yohsuke Makino
    • Nozomi Itoda
    • Hirotaro Iwase

    Case Report 22 June 2016 Pages: 1329 - 1332

    

28. A method for estimating gestational age of fetal remains based on long bone lengths

    • Cristiana Carneiro
    • Francisco Curate
    • Eugénia Cunha

    Original Article 01 June 2016 Pages: 1333 - 1341

    

29. Evaluation of age estimation in forensic medicine by examination of medial clavicular ossification from thin-slice computed tomography images

    • Murat Serdar Gurses
    • Nursel Turkmen Inanir
    • Gokhan Ocakoglu

    Original Article 28 June 2016 Pages: 1343 - 1352

30. Comparison of porcine thorax to gelatine blocks for wound ballistics studies

    • A. Mabbott
    • D. J. Carr
    • C. Malbon

    Original Article Open access 04 February 2016 Pages: 1353 - 1362

    

31. Temperature-dependent development and the significance for estimating postmortem interval of Chrysomya nigripes Aubertin, a new forensically important species in China

    • Liangliang Li
    • Yu Wang
    • Yue Lai

    Original Article 12 February 2016 Pages: 1363 - 1370

    

32. Human cranial vault thickness in a contemporary sample of 1097 autopsy cases: relation to body weight, stature, age, sex and ancestry

    • H. H. (Hans) De Boer
    • A. E. (Lida) Van der Merwe
    • V. (Vidija) Soerdjbalie-Maikoe

    Original Article Open access 25 February 2016 Pages: 1371 - 1377

    

33. Reconstruction of crimes by infrared photography

    • V. Sterzik
    • M. Bohnert

    Original Article 01 March 2016 Pages: 1379 - 1385

    

34. A novel methodology for the objective ascertainment of psychic and existential damage

    • Santo Davide Ferrara
    • Viviana Ananian
    • Giuseppe Sartori

    Original Article 04 May 2016 Pages: 1387 - 1399

    

35. Bony injuries in homicide cases (1994–2014). A retrospective study

    • Alexander Flieger
    • Sarah C. Kölzer
    • Marcel A. Verhoff

    Original Article 11 July 2016 Pages: 1401 - 1408