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  1. A Machine Learning Method for Authentication of Human Ancient Mitochondrial DNA
  2. Comparative evaluation of computational methods for reconstruction of human viral genomes
  3. Intra-host genomic diversity and integration landscape of human tissue-resident DNA virome
  4. Current status of undergraduate teaching in forensic & legal medicine in Europe
  5. Forensic Microbiology
  6. Cardiac Death
  7. Neuropathology consultation rates in medico-legal autopsies show substantial within-country variation—a nationwide Finnish study
  8. Revealing persistent childhood viruses in the body and organs of adults
  9. Commercial Aircraft-Assisted Suicide Accident Investigations Re-Visited—Agreeing to Disagree?
  10. Molecular Autopsy
  11. Detection of Low-Copy Human Virus DNA upon Prolonged Formalin Fixation
  12. PREVIOUS MILITARY PILOTS AND THEIR LATER FATAL CIVIL AVIATION ACCIDENTS
  13. Genetic assessment reveals no population substructure and divergent regional and sex-specific histories in the Chachapoyas from northeast Peru
  14. A roadmap to the safe practice of forensic medicine in the COVID-19 pandemic
  15. The landscape of persistent human DNA viruses in femoral bone
  16. Neuropathologic features of four autopsied COVID‐19 patients
  17. A hybrid pipeline for reconstruction and analysis of viral genomes at multi-organ level
  18. Statement on conversion therapy
  19. Buried in water, burdened by nature—Resilience carried the Iron Age people through Fimbulvinter
  20. Human mitochondrial DNA lineages in Iron-Age Fennoscandia suggest incipient admixture and eastern introduction of farming-related maternal ancestry
  21. European recommendations integrating genetic testing into multidisciplinary management of sudden cardiac death
  22. The population history of northeastern Siberia since the Pleistocene
  23. A genome-wide association study of tramadol metabolism from post-mortem samples
  24. A pathway-driven predictive model of tramadol pharmacogenetics
  25. Supervised Classification of CYP2D6 Genotype and Metabolizer Phenotype With Postmortem Tramadol-Exposed Finns
  26. Ancient Fennoscandian genomes reveal origin and spread of Siberian ancestry in Europe
  27. Aircraft-Assisted Pilot Suicides in the General Aviation Increased for One-Year Period after 11 September 2001 Attack in the United States
  28. Monocytes accumulate in the airways of children with fatal asthma
  29. Completed suicides of citalopram users—the role of CYP genotypes and adverse drug interactions
  30. Challenges in investigation of diabetes-related aviation fatalities—an analysis of 1491 subsequent aviation fatalities in USA during 2011–2016
  31. Duty of Notification and Aviation Safety—A Study of Fatal Aviation Accidents in the United States in 2015
  32. Exploring the 1000 Genomes Project haplotype reporting for the CYP2D6 pharmacogene
  33. Post-mortem analysis of suicide victims shows ABCB1 haplotype 1236T–2677T–3435T as a candidate predisposing factor behind adverse drug reactions in females
  34. Sheep and cattle population dynamics based on ancient and modern DNA reflects key events in the human history of the North-East Baltic Sea Region
  35. Copycats in Pilot Aircraft-Assisted Suicides after the Germanwings Incident
  36. Predicted activity of UGT2B7, ABCB1, OPRM1, and COMT using full-gene haplotypes and their association with the CYP2D6-inferred metabolizer phenotype
  37. Improved Y-STR typing for disaster victim identification, missing persons investigations, and historical human skeletal remains
  38. Full-gene haplotypes refine CYP2D6 metabolizer phenotype inferences
  39. Population resequencing of European mitochondrial genomes highlights sex-bias in Bronze Age demographic expansions
  40. Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Fatal Accidents in Aviation Medicine
  41. FANTOM5 CAGE profiles of human and mouse samples
  42. Identification and analysis of mtDNA genomes attributed to Finns reveal long-stagnant demographic trends obscured in the total diversity
  43. Serotonergic 5HTTLPR /rs25531 s-allele homozygosity associates with violent suicides in male citalopram users
  44. Immunohistology and remodeling in fatal pediatric and adolescent asthma
  45. Global genetic variation of select opiate metabolism genes in self-reported healthy individuals
  46. General Aviation Pilots Over 70 Years Old
  47. Glucose metabolism in completed suicide: a forensic-pathological pilot study
  48. Bipolar Disorder in Aviation Medicine
  49. 17 th Century Variola Virus Reveals the Recent History of Smallpox
  50. The Simons Genome Diversity Project: 300 genomes from 142 diverse populations
  51. The usefulness of point-of-care (POC) tests in screening elevated glucose and ketone body levels postmortem
  52. Expansion of Microbial Forensics
  53. Temporal variation in coat colour (genotypes) supports major changes in the Nordic cattle population after Iron Age
  54. MtDNA and Y‐chromosomal diversity in the Chachapoya, a population from the northeast Peruvian Andes‐Amazon divide
  55. Mitochondrial DNA Replication Defects Disturb Cellular dNTP Pools and Remodel One-Carbon Metabolism
  56. DNA quality and quantity from up to 16 years old post-mortem blood stored on FTA cards
  57. Renal markers cystatin C and neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) in postmortem samples
  58. Modified DOP-PCR for improved STR typing of degraded DNA from human skeletal remains and bloodstains
  59. The Constrained Maximal Expression Level Owing to Haploidy Shapes Gene Content on the Mammalian X Chromosome
  60. Bones hold the key to DNA virus history and epidemiology
  61. Post-mortem analysis of lactate concentration in diabetics and metformin poisonings
  62. Global diversity, population stratification, and selection of human copy-number variation
  63. On doctors’ accountability and flight deck safety
  64. Vestiges of an Ancient Border in the Contemporary Genetic Diversity of North-Eastern Europe
  65. Temporal Fluctuation in North East Baltic Sea Region Cattle Population Revealed by Mitochondrial and Y-Chromosomal DNA Analyses
  66. Large-scale recent expansion of European patrilineages shown by population resequencing
  67. High sensitivity multiplex short tandem repeat loci analyses with massively parallel sequencing
  68. Ethylene Glycol and Metabolite Concentrations in Fatal Ethylene Glycol Poisonings
  69. Underlying Data for Sequencing the Mitochondrial Genome with the Massively Parallel Sequencing Platform Ion Torrent™ PGM™
  70. HbA1c method evaluation for postmortem samples
  71. Postmortem medicolegal genetic diagnostics also require reporting guidance
  72. The Y-Chromosome Tree Bursts into Leaf: 13,000 High-Confidence SNPs Covering the Majority of Known Clades
  73. Cost–consequence analysis of cause of death investigation in Finland and in Denmark
  74. Editors’ Pick: Contamination has always been the issue!
  75. Autopsy rate in suicide is low among elderly in Denmark compared with Finland
  76. Cause and manner of death and phase of the blood alcohol curve
  77. Coding ill-defined and unknown cause of death is 13 times more frequent in Denmark than in Finland
  78. A global analysis of Y-chromosomal haplotype diversity for 23 STR loci
  79. Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans
  80. High-quality and high-throughput massively parallel sequencing of the human mitochondrial genome using the Illumina MiSeq
  81. mitoSAVE: Mitochondrial sequence analysis of variants in Excel
  82. Aircraft-Assisted Pilot Suicides: Lessons to be Learned
  83. Toward Male Individualization with Rapidly Mutating Y-Chromosomal Short Tandem Repeats
  84. Collaborative EDNAP exercise on the IrisPlex system for DNA-based prediction of human eye colour
  85. Use of post-mortem computed tomography in Disaster Victim Identification. Positional statement of the members of the Disaster Victim Identification working group of the International Society of Forensic Radiology and Imaging; May 2014
  86. CCL2 enhances pluripotency of human induced pluripotent stem cells by activating hypoxia related genes
  87. Differential roles of epigenetic changes and Foxp3 expression in regulatory T cell-specific transcriptional regulation
  88. Ceruloplasmin Is a Novel Adipokine Which Is Overexpressed in Adipose Tissue of Obese Subjects and in Obesity-Associated Cancer Cells
  89. A promoter-level mammalian expression atlas
  90. An atlas of active enhancers across human cell types and tissues
  91. Editors’ Pick: milk sugar, migration and pastoralism in Africa
  92. Molecular clocks ticking in the court room
  93. Validation of high throughput sequencing and microbial forensics applications
  94. Post-mortem vitreous humour as potential specimen for detection of insulin analogues by LC–MS/MS
  95. Assessment of Traub formula and ketone bodies in cause of death investigations
  96. Use of Radiology in Disaster Victim Identification: Positional statement of the members of the Disaster Victim Identification working group of the International Society of Forensic Radiology and Imaging; May 2013
  97. False-positive diatom test: A real challenge? A post-mortem study using standardized protocols
  98. Statement on access to relevant medical and other health records and relevant legal records for forensic medical evaluations of alleged torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
  99. Measuring postmortem glycated hemoglobin – A comparison of three methods
  100. A tribute to DNA fingerprinting
  101. Editors’ pick: transcriptomes of 1000 genomes
  102. Major historical dietary changes are reflected in the dental microbiome of ancient skeletons
  103. Similarity in recombination rate and linkage disequilibrium at CYP2C and CYP2D cytochrome P450 gene regions among Europeans indicates signs of selection and no advantage of using tagSNPs in population isolates
  104. What really happened with pneumonia mortality in Finland in 2000–2008?: a cohort study
  105. Discrimination power of Investigator DIPplex loci in Finnish and Somali populations
  106. Postmortem measurement of C-reactive protein and interpretation of results in ketoacidosis
  107. Editors’ pick: codeine toxicity prediction in young infants – genotype the mothers
  108. The Y chromosome and the heartache of males
  109. Under-recording of ethanol intoxication and poisoning in cause-of-death data: Causes and consequences
  110. Dissecting the Finnish male uniformity: The value of additional Y-STR loci
  111. Dry Eye Symptoms Are Increased in Mice Deficient in Phospholipid Transfer Protein (PLTP)
  112. Age assessment by the Greulich and Pyle method compared to other skeletal X-ray and dental methods in data from Finnish child victims of the Southeast Asian Tsunami
  113. Post-mortem ABCB1 genotyping reveals an elevated toxicity for female digoxin users
  114. Characterisation of bronchus-associated lymphoid tissue and antigen-presenting cells in central airway mucosa of children
  115. Pharmacogenetics in medico-legal context
  116. Factors affecting the STR amplification success in poorly preserved bone samples
  117. Evolution of detoxifying systems: the role of environment and population history in shaping genetic diversity at human CYP2D6 locus
  118. Analysis of 9p24 and 11p12-13 regions in autism spectrum disorders: rs1340513 in the JMJD2C gene is associated with ASDs in Finnish sample
  119. Welcome to Investigative Genetics
  120. Adverse interaction of warfarin and paracetamol: evidence from a post-mortem study
  121. X-STR diversity patterns in the Finnish and the Somali population
  122. Genetic markers and population history: Finland revisited
  123. Asbestos fibers in para‐aortic and mesenteric lymph nodes
  124. Pharmacogenetic variation at CYP2C9, CYP2C19, and CYP2D6 at global and microgeographic scales
  125. An evaluation of the genetic-matched pair study design using genome-wide SNP data from the European population
  126. Infantile-onset spinocerebellar ataxia and mitochondrial recessive ataxia syndrome are associated with neuronal complex I defect and mtDNA depletion
  127. Correlation between Genetic and Geographic Structure in Europe
  128. The effect of number of loci on geographical structuring and forensic applicability of Y-STR data in Finland
  129. Northwest Siberian Khanty and Mansi in the junction of West and East Eurasian gene pools as revealed by uniparental markers
  130. Pulseless electrical activity and unsuccessful out-of-hospital resuscitation: What is the cause of death?
  131. Screening of BCS1L mutations in severe neonatal disorders suspicious for mitochondrial cause
  132. Fatal iatrogenic BaSO4 embolism: Morphological and ultrastructural findings confirmed by X-ray microanalysis and ICP-AES
  133. Finnish mitochondrial DNA HVS-I and HVS-II population data
  134. A Fatal Doxepin Poisoning Associated With a Defective CYP2D6 Genotype
  135. Evidence of Still-Ongoing Convergence Evolution of the Lactase Persistence T-13910 Alleles in Humans
  136. Foreword
  137. High degree of Y-chromosomal divergence within Finland—forensic aspects
  138. DNA Commission of the International Society for Forensic Genetics (ISFG): Recommendations regarding the role of forensic genetics for disaster victim identification (DVI)
  139. CYP2D6 worldwide genetic variation shows high frequency of altered activity variants and no continental structure
  140. Corrigendum to ‘‘A microarray system for genotyping 150 single nucleotide polymorphisms in the coding region of human mitochondrial DNA” [Genomics 87 (2006) 534–542]
  141. Characterizing genetically stable and unstable gastric cancers by microsatellites and array comparative genomic hybridization
  142. Analysis of nucleotide diversity of NAT2 coding region reveals homogeneity across Native American populations and high intra-population diversity
  143. DNA copy number aberrations in intestinal-type gastric cancer revealed by array-based comparative genomic hybridization
  144. CYP2D6 and CYP2C19 genotypes and amitriptyline metabolite ratios in a series of medicolegal autopsies
  145. A microarray system for genotyping 150 single nucleotide polymorphisms in the coding region of human mitochondrial DNA
  146. Deciphering the Ancient and Complex Evolutionary History of Human Arylamine N-Acetyltransferase Genes
  147. How well does a national newspaper reporting system profile drowning?
  148. Intrinsic structural variation of the complex microsatellite marker MYCL1 in Finnish and Somali populations and its relevance to gastrointestinal tumors
  149. Differences in genomic instability between intestinal- and diffuse-type gastric cancer
  150. Assessment of HV1 and HV2 mtDNA Variation for Forensic Purposes in an Uruguayan Population Sample
  151. CYP2D6 Genotyping by a Multiplex Primer Extension Reaction
  152. Fatal Gunshot Wounds Between 1995 and 2001 in a Highly Populated Region in Finland
  153. What Is the Incidence and Significance of “Dry-Lungs” in Bodies Found in Water?
  154. Correlation Between the Allelic Distribution of STRs in a Finnish Population and Phenotypically Different Gastrointestinal Tumours: A Study Using Four X‐Chromosomal Markers (DXS7423, DXS8377, ARA, DXS101)
  155. Mast Cells in Neovascularized Human Coronary Plaques Store and Secrete Basic Fibroblast Growth Factor, a Potent Angiogenic Mediator
  156. A Comprehensive Survey of Human Y-Chromosomal Microsatellites
  157. Unintentional drowning in Finland 1970-2000: a population-based study
  158. Analysis of 16 Y STR loci in the Finnish population reveals a local reduction in the diversity of male lineages
  159. Typing of XY (male) Genotype from Malignant Neoplastic Tissue by the Amelogenin-based Sex Test
  160. Sudden Death Associated With a Multifocal Type II Hemangioendothelioma of the Liver in a 3-Month-Old Infant
  161. Evaluation of gastrointestinal cancer tissues as a source of genetic information for forensic investigations by using STRs
  162. International collaboration in mass disasters involving foreign nationals within the EU
  163. Post-mortem SNP analysis of CYP2D6 gene reveals correlation between genotype and opioid drug (tramadol) metabolite ratios in blood
  164. Undetermined Drowning
  165. An empirical survey on biobanking of human genetic material and data in six EU countries
  166. Molecular screening of selected long QT syndrome (LQTS) mutations in 165 consecutive bodies found in water
  167. Penta-, nona- and decaplex Y-STR typing systems: a comparative study
  168. Recombination hotspots rather than population history dominate linkage disequilibrium in the MHC class II region
  169. Y-chromosomal microsatellites in the Finns
  170. Circumstances and Macropathologic Findings in 1590 Consecutive Cases of Bodies Found in Water
  171. Death in bathtub revisited with molecular genetics: a victim with suicidal traits and a LQTS gene mutation
  172. Drowning in Finland: “external cause” and “injury” codes
  173. Suicide by Intracerebellar Ballpoint Pen
  174. Fatal isolated ruptures of bladder following minor blunt trauma
  175. Crossover clustering and rapid decay of linkage disequilibrium in the Xp/Yp pseudoautosomal gene SHOX
  176. Sudden death due to rupture of the arteria pancreatica magna: a complication of an immature pseudocyst in chronic pancreatitis
  177. DNA Commission of the International Society of Forensic Genetics: recommendations on forensic analysis using Y-chromosome STRs
  178. DNA Commission of the International Society of Forensic Genetics: recommendations on forensic analysis using Y-chromosome short tandem repeats
  179. Forensic osteological investigations in Kosovo
  180. DNA Commission of the International Society of Forensic Genetics: recommendations on forensic analysis using Y-chromosome STRs
  181. Mutations at Y-STR loci: implications for paternity testing and forensic analysis
  182. Y-Chromosomal SNPs in Finno–Ugric-Speaking Populations Analyzed by Minisequencing on Microarrays
  183. Recent Insertion of an Alu Element Within a Polymorphic Human-Specific Alu Insertion
  184. Alu insertion polymorphisms in NW Africa and the Iberian Peninsula: evidence for a strong genetic boundary through the Gibraltar Straits
  185. Homozygosity for a HERG potassium channel mutation causes a severe form of long QT syndrome: identification of an apparent founder mutation in the Finns
  186. Characteristics and Frequency of Germline Mutations at Microsatellite Loci from the Human Y Chromosome, as Revealed by Direct Observation in Father/Son Pairs
  187. Evidence for Variable Selective Pressures at MC1R
  188. Coagulation factor V Leiden mutation in sudden fatal pulmonary embolism and in a general northern European population sample
  189. Post mortem molecularly defined familial hypercholesterolemia and sudden cardiac death of young men
  190. Analysis of mtDNA HVRII in several human populations using an immobilised SSO probe hybridisation assay
  191. Y chromosomal polymorphisms reveal founding lineages in the Finns and the Saami
  192. mtDNA Analysis of Nile River Valley Populations: A Genetic Corridor or a Barrier to Migration?
  193. Experimentally observed germline mutations at human micro- and minisatellite loci
  194. Human genome diversity—a Project?
  195. Golli-MBP gene in multiple sclerosis susceptibility
  196. Glucose Metabolism in Identical Twins Discordant for Obesity. The Critical Role of Visceral Fat
  197. Recurrent duplication and deletion polymorphisms on the long arm of the Y chromosome in normal males
  198. Paternal and maternal DNA lineages reveal a bottleneck in the founding of the Finnish population.
  199. Genotyping of five short tandem repeat loci via triplex and duplex PCR
  200. The genetical archaeology of the human genome
  201. Minisatellite diversity supports a recent African origin for modern humans
  202. Language replacement in Scandinavia
  203. Genes and languages in Europe: an analysis of mitochondrial lineages.
  204. Angiotensin‐converting enzyme genotypes in the high‐ and low‐risk area for coronary heart disease in Finland
  205. Characterization and Radiosensitivity of UT-EC-2A and UT-EC-2B, Two New Highly Radiosensitive Endometrial Cancer Cell Lines Derived from a Primary and Metastatic Tumor of the Same Patient
  206. A microsatellite polymorphism in the von Willebrand factor gene: comparison of allele frequencies in different population samples and evaluation for forensic medicine
  207. Improved separation of PCR amplified VNTR alleles by a vertical polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis
  208. Determination of allele frequencies at loci with length polymorphism by quantitative analysis of DNA amplified from pooled samples.
  209. Forensic DNA typing by the solid-phase minisequencing method
  210. Genetic susceptibility to multiple sclerosis linked to myelin basic protein gene
  211. Isolation of two keratinocyte cell lines derived from HPV‐positive dysplastic vaginal lesions
  212. Amplification of three hypervariable DNA regions by polymerase chain reaction for paternity determinations: comparison with conventional methods and DNA fingerprinting
  213. DNA Profiling in a Genetically Isolated Population Using Three Hypervariable DNA Markers
  214. The polymerase chain reaction and post-mortem forensic identity testing: Application of amplified D1S80 and HLA-DQα loci to the identification of fire victims
  215. Identification of Individuals with DNA Testing
  216. Amplification of the hypervariable region close to the apolipoprotein B gene: Application to forensic problems