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Shuang-Shuang Wang1, Feng Song1, Xiao-Wen Wei1
1West China School of Basic Medical Sciences and Forensic Medicine, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610044, China.
Abstract:
The oral cavity is the second largest microbial bank in humans after the intestinal canal, colonizing a large number of microorganisms including viruses, bacteria, archaea, fungi and protozoa. The great number of microbial cells, good DNA stability, and individual has a unique microbial community, these characteristics make the human microbiome expected to become a new biomarker for forensic individual identification. This article describes the characteristics of human oral microorganisms and microbial molecular markers in detail, analyzes the potential application value of microorganisms in forensic individual identification, and reviews the research progress of human oral microorganisms in forensic individual identification.
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