Amino Acid Racemization
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Application of amino acid racemization in enamel to the estimation of the age of human teeth
Estimation of age-at-death for skeletonised forensic remains is one of the most significant problems in forensic anthropology. The majority of existing morphological and histological techniques are highly inaccurate, and show a bias towards underestimating the age of older individuals. One technique which has been successful in forensic age estimation is amino acid racemization in dentine. Howe...
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تاریخ انتشار 2007