Molecular Evaluation of Victims of Sudden Death:a promissing approach for excluding criminal responsability

POLISECKI, ELIANA; MARINO, MIGUEL; RAVIOLI, JULIO; SALA, ANDREA; CORACH, DANIEL.

INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS SERIES

Elsevier

Lugar: Denmark; Año: 2004 p. 599 - 601

0531-5131

Sudden death constitutes one of the most frequent causes of death in adults. In order to look for genetic markers that could play a role in the sudden death in adults (SDA), the common deletions of 4977 bp in the mitochondrial DNA and variations in the apoB gene were sudied. The correlation of the mtDNA common deletion with SDA victims might offer a rapid and simple tool to provide additional information in complex SDA investigations.