Science & Justice
Volume 47, Issue 4 , Pages 155-159 , December 2007

Investigation into the usefulness of DNA profiling of earprints

,Accepted 25 September 2007.

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doi: 10.1016/j.scijus.2007.09.006

Science & Justice
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