Huan Tian, Meili Lv, Zhilong Li, Duo Peng, Yu Tan, Hui Wang, Qingqing Li, Fuping Li, Weibo Liang
Non-protein coding RNA, miRNAs (microRNAs), are a class of promising molecular biomarkers for forensic body fluid identification (BFI) as their small size and tissue-specific expression manners. A number of studies have shown that semen can be distinguished from forensic-related body fluids (such as menstrual blood, venous blood, vaginal fluid, saliva, etc.) using semen-specific miRNAs through microassay screening and RT-qRCR. Infertility is becoming a global health problem, affecting 10%-15% of couples worldwide, and half of the cases are the result of male factors (Lian et al...
March 2018: Forensic Science International. Genetics