Recent advances in next-generation sequencing technologies and improvements in bioinformatics have expanded the scope of microbiome analysis as a forensic tool.Microbiome research is concerned with the study of the compositional profile and diversity of microbial flora as well as the interactions between microbes,hosts,and the environment.It has opened up many new possibilities for forensic analysis.In this review,we discuss various applications of microbiome in forensics,including identification of individuals,geolocation inference,and post-mortem interval(PMI)estimation.
Jun Zhang、Wenli Liu、Halimureti Simayijiang、Ping Hu、Jiangwei Yan
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School of Forensic Medicine,Shanxi Medical University,Taiyuan 030001,China
Beijing Center for Physical and Chemical Analysis,Beijing 100089,China
Key Laboratory of Environment and Health(HUST),Ministry of Education & Ministry of Environmental Protection,and State Key Laboratory of Environmental Health(Incubation),School of Public Health,Tongji Medical College,Huazhong University of Science and Technology,Wuhan 430074,China
National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaNational Natural Science Foundation of China
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