Sampling from four geographically divergent young female populations demonstrates forensic geolocation potential in microbiomes.

ABSTRACT: Studies of human microbiomes using new sequencing techniques have increasingly demonstrated that their ecologies are partly determined by the lifestyle and habits of individuals. As such, significant forensic information could be obtained from high throughput sequencing of the human microbiome. This approach, combined with multiple analytical techniques demonstrates that bacterial DNA can be used to uniquely identify an individual and to provide information about their life and behavioral patterns. However, the transformation of these findings into actionable forensic information, including the geolocation of the samples, remains limited by incomplete understanding of the effects of confounding factors and the paucity of diverse sequences. We obtained 16S rRNA sequences of stool and oral m

SUBMITTER: Clarke T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9633824 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature