@article {7686,
	title = {Distribution of forensic marker allelic frequencies in Pernambuco, Northestern Brazil.},
	journal = {Genet Mol Res},
	volume = {14},
	year = {2015},
	month = {2015},
	pages = {4303-10},
	abstract = {<p>Pernambuco is one of the 27 federal units of Brazil, ranking seventh in the number of inhabitants. We examined the allele frequencies of 13 short tandem repeat loci (CFS1PO, D3S1358, D5S818, D7S820, D8S1179, D13S317, D16S539, D18S51, D21S11, FGA, TH01, vWA, and TPOX), the minimum recommended by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and commonly used in forensic genetics laboratories in Brazil, in a sample of 609 unrelated individuals from all geographic regions of Pernambuco. The allele frequencies ranged from 5 to 47.2\%. No significant differences for any loci analyzed were observed compared with other publications in other various regions of Brazil. Most of the markers observed were in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. The occurrence of the allele 47.2 (locus FGA) and alleles 35.1 and 39 (locus D21S11), also described in a single study of the Brazilian population, was observed. The other forensic parameters analyzed (matching probability, power of discrimination, polymorphic information content, paternity exclusion, complement factor I, observed heterozygosity, expected heterozygosity) indicated that the studied markers are very informative for human forensic identification purposes in the Pernambuco population.</p>},
	issn = {1676-5680},
	doi = {10.4238/2015.April.30.2},
	author = {Santos, S M and Souza, C A and Rabelo, K C N and Souza, P R E and Moura, R R and Oliveira, T C and Crovella, S}
}
@article {8087,
	title = {Trace samples of human blood in mosquitoes as a forensic investigation tool.},
	journal = {Genet Mol Res},
	volume = {14},
	year = {2015},
	month = {2015},
	pages = {14847-56},
	abstract = {<p>Investigations of any type of crime invariably starts at the crime scene by collecting evidence. Thus, the purpose of this research was to collect and analyze an entomological trace from an environment that is similar to those of indoor crime scenes. Hematophagous mosquitoes were collected from two residential units; saliva of volunteers that were residents in the units was also collected for genetic analysis as reference samples. We examined the allele frequencies of 15 short tandem repeat loci (D8S1179, D21S11, D7S820, CSF1PO, D3S1358, TH01, D13S317, D16S539, D2S1338, D19S433, vWA, TPOX, D18S51, D5S818, and FGA) and amelogenin. A total of 26 female hematophagous mosquitoes were identified as Aedes aegypti, Aedes albopictus, and Culex quinquefasciatus; we were able to obtain 11 forensically valid genetic profiles, with a minimum of 0.028203 ng/μL of human DNA. Thus, the results of this study showed that it was possible to correlate human genetic information from mosquitoes with the volunteer reference samples, which validates the use of this information as forensic evidence. Furthermore, we observed mixed genetic profiles from one mosquito. Therefore, it is clearly important to collect these insects indoors where crimes were committed, because it may be possible to find intact genetic profiles of suspects in the blood found in the digestive tract of hematophagous mosquitoes for later comparison to identify an offender and/or exclude suspects.</p>},
	issn = {1676-5680},
	doi = {10.4238/2015.November.18.50},
	author = {Rabelo, K C N and Albuquerque, C M R and Tavares, V B and Santos, S M and Souza, C A and Oliveira, T C and Oliveira, N C L and Crovella, S}
}
