Remualdo Vanessa Rosalia, Oliveira Rogerio Nogueira
GENOLAB-Análises Genéticas, Blumenau, Brazil.
Am J Forensic Med Pathol. 2007 Jun;28(2):145-6. doi: 10.1097/PAF.0b013e31805f67d1.
This was a case that brought great commotion to a university in the interior of Brazil since it was suspected that one of the human bodies used for teaching anatomy was a relative of one of the students. Analysis of fragments of hypervariable region 2 of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) was performed using a miniprimer set (MPS), indicating that there had been a mistake in evaluation by the student, reinforcing the need to base the process of human identification in technical parameters.
