ISSN: 0022-1198
CODEN: JFSCA
Page Count: 8

ABH Antigen Typing in Bone Tissue
Pagliaro, EM
Chief criminalist and director, supervisory criminalist, and criminalist, Connecticut State Police Forensic Science Laboratory, CT

Lee, HC
Chief criminalist and director, supervisory criminalist, and criminalist, Connecticut State Police Forensic Science Laboratory, CT

Wayne Carver, H
Deputy chief medical examiner, Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, State of Connecticut, CT

Carroll-Reho, J
Chief criminalist and director, supervisory criminalist, and criminalist, Connecticut State Police Forensic Science Laboratory, CT

Gaensslen, RE
Professor and director, Forensic Sciences Program, University of New Haven, CT

(Received 26 February 1988; accepted 25 March 1988)

Abstract

Results obtained from the ABH grouping of bone tissues by the absorption-elution procedure and by a recently described two-dimensional absorption-inhibition procedure are reported. Neither the elution nor the inhibition procedure alone yielded uniformly correct results. A combination procedure consisting of the use of both absorption-elution and two-dimensional absorption-inhibition is proposed for bone ABH grouping. When elution and inhibition were used in combination, specimens yielding concordant results with both techniques were correctly grouped.

Keywords:
forensic science, genetic typing, human identification, musculoskeletal system, ABO blood group system, bone grouping, absorption-inhibition, absorption-elution, paleoserology

Paper ID: JFS12606J
DOI: 10.1520/JFS12606J
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