1. Characterization of DNA methylation-based markers for human body fluid identification in forensics: a critical review

   • Farzeen Kader
   • Meenu Ghai
   • Ademola O. Olaniran

   Review 12 November 2019 Pages: 1 - 20

2. Retrieving forensic information about the donor through bacterial profiling

   • Katherine Phan
   • Mark Barash
   • Claude Roux

   Original Article 30 April 2019 Pages: 21 - 29

   

3. Genotyping genetic markers from LCN and degraded DNA by HRM and their application in hair shaft

   • Enzhu Jiang
   • Siyi Zhang
   • Hao Pang

   Original Article 06 May 2019 Pages: 31 - 37

   

4. Mitochondrial DNA variation in sudden cardiac death: a population-based study

   • Laura Kytövuori
   • Juhani Junttila
   • Mika H. Martikainen

   Original Article Open access 31 May 2019 Pages: 39 - 44

5. Copan microFLOQ® Direct Swab collection of bloodstains, saliva, and semen on cotton cloth

   • Allison J Sherier
   • Rachel E. Kieser
   • Bruce Budowle

   Original Article 04 June 2019 Pages: 45 - 54

   

6. Development of a multiplex, PCR-based genotyping assay for African and Asian elephants for forensic purposes

   • Margret J. Potoczniak
   • Michael Chermak
   • Jillian Conte

   Original Article 12 June 2019 Pages: 55 - 62

   

7. Forensic discrimination of menstrual blood and peripheral blood using attenuated total reflectance (ATR)-Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy and chemometrics

   • Sweety Sharma
   • Rito Chophi
   • Rajinder Singh

   Original Article 06 August 2019 Pages: 63 - 77

   

8. Optimizing DNA recovery and forensic typing of degraded blood and dental remains using a specialized extraction method, comprehensive qPCR sample characterization, and massively parallel sequencing

   • Patricio Carrasco
   • Carolina Inostroza
   • Andrew Loftus

   Original Article Open access 14 August 2019 Pages: 79 - 91

   

9. Effect of sodium hypochlorite decontamination on the DNA recovery from human teeth

   • Katharina Koehn
   • Andreas Buettner
   • Iris Lindner

   Original Article 06 November 2019 Pages: 93 - 99

   

10. Estimation of the number of contributors to mixed samples of DNA by mitochondrial DNA analyses using massively parallel sequencing

    • Hiroaki Nakanishi
    • Koji Fujii
    • Kazuyuki Saito

    Original Article 12 November 2019 Pages: 101 - 109

11. Targeted molecular genetic testing in young sudden cardiac death victims from Western Denmark

    • Maiken Kudahl Larsen
    • Sofie Lindgren Christiansen
    • Niels Morling

    Original Article 15 November 2019 Pages: 111 - 121

    

12. Ancestry-informative marker (AIM) SNP panel for the Malay population

    • Padillah Yahya
    • Sarina Sulong
    • Bin Alwi Zilfalil

    Original Article 23 November 2019 Pages: 123 - 134

    

13. Targeted exon sequencing in deceased schizophrenia patients in Denmark

    • Gonçalo Espregueira Themudo
    • Anna-Roos Leerschool
    • Niels Morling

    Original Article 26 November 2019 Pages: 135 - 147

    

14. Postmortem interval determination using mRNA markers and DNA normalization

    • Duo Peng
    • Meili Lv
    • Lin Zhang

    Short Communication 26 November 2019 Pages: 149 - 157

    

15. RNU6B, a frequent reference in miRNA expression studies, differentiates between deaths caused by hypothermia and chronic cardiac ischemia

    • Helena Kaija
    • Lasse Pakanen
    • Katja Porvari

    Short Communication Open access 23 March 2019 Pages: 159 - 162

    

16. Genetic polymorphisms and mutation rates of 16 X-STRs in a Han Chinese population of Beijing and application examples in second-degree kinship cases

    • Man Chen
    • He Ren
    • Jiangwei Yan

    Short Communication 01 April 2019 Pages: 163 - 168

17. Correction to: Genetic polymorphisms and mutation rates of 16 X-STRs in a Han Chinese population of Beijing and application examples in second-degree kinship cases

    • Man Chen
    • He Ren
    • Jiangwei Yan

    Correction 22 April 2019 Pages: 169 - 169

18. Cleaning a crime scene 2.0—what to do with the bloody knife after the crime?

    • Janine Helmus
    • Jeremy Poetsch
    • Micaela Poetsch

    Short Communication 18 October 2019 Pages: 171 - 175

    

19. Validation of the AGCU Expressmarker 16 + 22Y Kit: a new multiplex for forensic application

    • Mingkun Xie
    • Feng Song
    • Haibo Luo

    Short Communication 12 November 2019 Pages: 177 - 183

    

20. Inter-laboratory study on standardized MPS libraries: evaluation of performance, concordance, and sensitivity using mixtures and degraded DNA

    • Petra Müller
    • Christian Sell
    • the SeqForSTR-Consortium

    Method Paper Open access 19 November 2019 Pages: 185 - 198

    

21. Paternal lineages and forensic parameters based on 23 Y-STRs (Powerplex® Y23) in Mestizo males from Mexico City

    • Yadira Lizethe López-Ramírez
    • José Alonso Aguilar-Velázquez
    • Héctor Rangel-Villalobos

    Population Data 09 November 2019 Pages: 199 - 202

    

22. Detection of blood and DNA traces after thermal exposure

    • Anke Klein
    • O. Krebs
    • C. Edler

    Letter to the Editor 17 August 2019 Pages: 203 - 204

23. The challenge of post-mortem GHB analysis: storage conditions and specimen types are both important

    • J. Kietzerow
    • B. Otto
    • H. Andresen-Streichert

    Original Article 09 October 2019 Pages: 205 - 215

    

24. Pathological changes induced by phosphine poisoning: a study on 8 children

    • Yue Liang
    • Fang Tong
    • Yiwu Zhou

    Original Article 11 November 2019 Pages: 217 - 228

    

25. Fatalities associated with NPS stimulants in the Greater Cologne area

    • Sabrina Lehmann
    • Tobias Kieliba
    • Katja Mercer-Chalmers-Bender

    Original Article 18 November 2019 Pages: 229 - 241

26. Evaluation of the distribution of nicotine intravenous injection: an adult autopsy case report with a review of literature

    • Yayoi Aoki
    • Tomoya Ikeda
    • Takaki Ishikawa

    Case Report Open access 07 April 2019 Pages: 243 - 249

    

27. A case of fatal acebutolol poisoning: an illustration of the potential of molecular networking

    • Brendan Le Daré
    • Sophie Allard
    • Thomas Gicquel

    Case Report 17 April 2019 Pages: 251 - 256

    

28. Correction to: A case of fatal acebutolol poisoning: an illustration of the potential of molecular networking

    • Brendan Le Daré
    • Sophie Allard
    • Thomas Gicquel

    Correction 24 May 2019 Pages: 257 - 258

    

29. Changing trends in suicides using helium or nitrogen

    • Roger W. Byard

    Letter to the Editor 25 October 2019 Pages: 259 - 259

30. MDPV-induced aggression in humans not established

    • Kate Y. O’Malley
    • Christopher Medina-Kirchner

    Letter to the Editor 16 November 2019 Pages: 261 - 262

31. Reply to “MDPV-induced aggression in humans not established”

    • Fabio De-Giorgio
    • Sabrine Bilel
    • Matteo Marti

    Letter to the Editor 26 November 2019 Pages: 263 - 265

    

32. Relationship between bullet diameter and bullet defect diameter in human calvariums

    • W. Kerkhoff
    • E. J. A. T. Mattijssen
    • R. J. Oostra

    Review Open access 16 November 2019 Pages: 267 - 272

33. Temporal expression of wound healing–related genes inform wound age estimation in rats after a skeletal muscle contusion: a multivariate statistical model analysis

    • Qiu-xiang Du
    • Na Li
    • Jun-hong Sun

    Original Article 11 January 2019 Pages: 273 - 282

    

34. Arrow entrance wounds with blackened margins simulating bullet wipe

    • Arianna Giorgetti
    • Markus Große Perdekamp
    • Dorothee Geisenberger

    Original Article 11 November 2019 Pages: 283 - 294

    

35. Updating the risk profile of fatal head trauma: an autopsy study with focus on age- and sex-dependent differences

    • Katharina Kronsbein
    • Bernd Karger
    • Daniel Wittschieber

    Original Article 18 November 2019 Pages: 295 - 307

    

36. Ballistic gelatine—what we see and what we get

    • Christian Walter Albert Schyma

    Original Article 04 November 2019 Pages: 309 - 315

    

37. Fatal cervix rupture due to intraplacental choriocarcinoma triggered by sexual intercourse

    • Huang Weisheng
    • Wu Shuang
    • Zhou Yiwu

    Case Report 07 November 2019 Pages: 317 - 320

    

38. Postmortem imaging findings and cause of death determination compared with autopsy: a systematic review of diagnostic test accuracy and meta-analysis

    • Garyfalia Ampanozi
    • Delaja Halbheer
    • Ulrike Held

    Review 27 August 2019 Pages: 321 - 337

    

39. Automatic rib unfolding in postmortem computed tomography: diagnostic evaluation of the OpenRib software compared with the autopsy in the detection of rib fractures

    • Martin Kolopp
    • Nicolas Douis
    • Laurent Martrille

    Original Article 16 November 2019 Pages: 339 - 346

    

40. Comparing third molar root development staging in panoramic radiography, extracted teeth, and cone beam computed tomography

    • Ademir Franco
    • Flávia Vetter
    • Patrick Thevissen

    Original Article 21 November 2019 Pages: 347 - 353

    

41. Comparison of different iterative CT reconstruction techniques and filtered back projection for assessment of the medial clavicular epiphysis in forensic age estimation

    • Magdalini Tozakidou
    • Ilze Apine
    • Jochen Herrmann

    Original Article 27 November 2019 Pages: 355 - 361

    

42. Root Pulp Visibility as a mandibular maturity marker at the 18-year threshold in the Maltese population

    • Fatemah al Qattan
    • Emad Eddin Alzoubi
    • Simon Camilleri

    Original Article 07 September 2019 Pages: 363 - 368

    

43. Dental age estimation based on the radiographic visibility of the periodontal ligament in the lower third molars: application of a new stage classification

    • Yu-cheng Guo
    • Ya-hui Wang
    • Andreas Schmeling

    Original Article 29 October 2019 Pages: 369 - 374

    

44. Estimating forensic age via magnetic resonance imaging of the distal radial epiphysis

    • Ali Er
    • Mustafa Bozdag
    • Oguzhan Ekizoglu

    Original Article 12 November 2019 Pages: 375 - 380

    

45. Usability of dental pulp visibility and tooth coronal index in digital panoramic radiography in age estimation in the forensic medicine

    • Ertugrul Gok
    • Recep Fedakar
    • Ilker Mustafa Kafa

    Original Article 13 November 2019 Pages: 381 - 392