Esclarecimiento de un homicidio a través de la genética forense

Abstract

The forensic genetics is a science of great importance that gives us a tool of research and gives us the method to discover through DNA a profile of identification and perform the analysis of the biological evidence that allow the identification of the person that committed a crime and to know the circumstances in which the crime occurred. Legal New editions (2007) Judicial police and prosecutorial system Third Edition G Augusto Arciniegas Martinez. The Forensic Hemogenética was born at the beginning of the century, when Karl Landsteiner describes the ABO system of the erythrocytes and Von Durgen Hirschfeld and discover its hereditary transmission. This science emerged as a branch of the Criminalistics whose objective was the genetic identification both in cases of criminal investigation as in biological studies of paternity. Initially, the research focused on the study of erythrocytic antigens (ABO system, RH, MN), serum proteins, enzymes erythrocyte and HLA system. With the study of such markers could be included or excluded a person as a possible suspect for possessing a genetic combination equal to or different from the biological vestige found in the place of the facts.