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Response to the comment on "Promising blood-derived biomarkers for estimation of the postmortem interval"
Ricardo Jorge Dinis-Oliveira1,2,3, Félix Carvalho2, Isabel Costa1,3
1IINFACTS - Institute of Research and Advanced Training in Health Sciences and Technologies , Department of Sciences , University Institute of Health Sciences (IUCS-CESPU) , Gandra , Portugal.
Abstract:
Following Meurs and Szykuła's comment on our published article titled "Promising blood-derived biomarkers for estimation of the postmortem interval", we recognize the importance of the issues raised, but we would like to emphasize that these contain some misinterpretations and that most of the points were already discussed in depth in our manuscript particularly in the conclusion section. We also aim to highlight further data regarding the difficulties of postmortem interval estimation.

