Mistek-Morabito Ewelina, Lednev Igor K
Department of Chemistry, University at Albany, State University of New York, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY, 12222, USA.
Commun Chem. 2020 Dec 10;3(1):178. doi: 10.1038/s42004-020-00424-8.
Forensic chemistry is an important area of analytical chemistry. This field has been rapidly growing over the last several decades. Confirmation of the human origins of bloodstains is important in practical forensics. Current serological blood tests are destructive and often provide false positive results. Here, we report on the development of a nondestructive method that could potentially be applied at the scene for differentiation of human and animal blood using attenuated total reflection Fourier transform-infrared (ATR FT-IR) spectroscopy and statistical analysis. The following species were used to build statistical models for binary human-animal blood differentiation: cat, dog, rabbit, horse, cow, pig, opossum, and raccoon. Three other species (deer, elk, and ferret) were used for external validation. A partial least squares discriminant analysis (PLSDA) was used for classification purposes and showed excellent performance in internal cross-validation (CV). The method was externally validated first using blood samples from new donors of species used in the training data set, and second using donors of new species that were not used to construct the model. Both validations showed excellent results demonstrating potential of the developed approach for nondestructive, rapid, and statistically confident discrimination between human and animal blood for forensic purposes.
法医化学是分析化学的一个重要领域。在过去几十年里,这个领域一直在迅速发展。在实际法医工作中,确定血迹的人类来源很重要。目前的血清学血液检测具有破坏性,且常常产生假阳性结果。在此,我们报告一种无损方法的开发情况,该方法有可能应用于现场,利用衰减全反射傅里叶变换红外(ATR FT-IR)光谱和统计分析来区分人类和动物的血液。以下物种被用于建立二元人类 - 动物血液区分的统计模型:猫、狗、兔子、马、牛、猪、负鼠和浣熊。另外三个物种(鹿、麋鹿和雪貂)用于外部验证。使用偏最小二乘判别分析(PLSDA)进行分类,在内部交叉验证(CV)中表现出色。该方法首先使用来自训练数据集中所使用物种新供体的血液样本进行外部验证,其次使用未用于构建模型的新物种供体进行验证。两次验证均显示出优异的结果,证明了所开发方法在法医领域对人类和动物血液进行无损、快速且具有统计可信度区分的潜力。