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To Determine the Reliability & Sensitivity of Giemsa Stain by Barr Body Test for Accurate Gender Determination in Buccal Mucosal Cells.
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- 3. Principal3
- 4. Private Practitioner4
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Sex determination in forensic odontology can be done by either on morphological analysis or molecular analysis. Molecular analysis involves the study of DNA from extracted pulp, cartilage, hair, skin. Buccal mucosa, epithelium attached to denture and toothbrush. Barr bodies, F-bodies, SRY gene, AMEL gene can be studied to determine sex from these samples.
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