The impact of RNA stability and degradation in different tissues to the determination of post-mortem interval : A systematic review

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Postmortem interval (PMI) in legal medicine is extremely important for both criminal and civil cases, and several sorts of techniques have been recommended. This systematic review solely focuses on approaches linked to RNA analysis, instead of including all proposed methods for determining the PMI. The term PMI will be used in this review to indicate the time between a person's death and the postmortem examination of the body. We adhered to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) Guidelines when conducting this systematic review. The majority of studies on various tissues at various time intervals at various temperatures are non-human, and just a small number are on humans. The results are then provided using various statistical approaches. To calculate the PMI, post-mortem RNA degradation was examined using several tissues. The result so obtained had an opposite polarity. While some studies show that RNA stability in various tissues remained constant for several days after death, the other group of studies showed evident RNA degradation over time post-mortem, which was significantly influenced by temperature and other agonal factors. These factors have an impact on the multi-parametric mathematical model of ante and post-mortem factors on RNA degradation, as well as its applicability and feasibility. The estimation of PMI using RNA degradation can prove to be highly objective and efficient after controlling for the various factors and challenges that pose the estimation of RNA in forensic samples difficult.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:349

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Forensic science international - 349(2023) vom: 14. Aug., Seite 111772

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Thakral, Sahil [VerfasserIn]
Purohit, Purvi [VerfasserIn]
Mishra, Richa [VerfasserIn]
Gupta, Vaibhav [VerfasserIn]
Setia, Puneet [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

63231-63-0
Forensic genetics
Journal Article
Molecular biology
Post-mortem interval
RNA
RNA degradation
Review
Systematic Review

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Date Completed 14.08.2023

Date Revised 14.08.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.forsciint.2023.111772

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NLM359516750