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The services involving law-related matters such as the issuing of legal opinion,filing and pleading, as well as the issuing and defending of law suits among many others.

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ovoid bodies

Legal services; DNA forensics

Oval-shaped heavily pigmented bodies that may occur in the hair cortex.

partial profile

Legal services; DNA forensics

DNA evidence that does not yield identifiable results in all 13 core loci.

partially degraded DNA

Legal services; DNA forensics

Forensic DNA evidence exposed to environmental conditions that may prevent it from yielding a usable profile.

paternal inheritance

Legal services; DNA forensics

Genetic material which is inherited from one's father; for example, the possibility that mtDNA can be inherited from one's father.

paternity or system index (PI or SI)

Legal services; DNA forensics

A statistic that compares the likelihood that a genetic marker (allele) that the alleged father passed to the child to the probability that a randomly selected unrelated man of ...

PCR inhibitors

Legal services; DNA forensics

A substance that interferes with the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) process. Examples of PCR inhibitors include dyes, soil, chemicals, and heme (hemoglobin).

peripheral region

Legal services; DNA forensics

The peripheral region is the portion of the hair toward the outermost areas of the hair, including the cuticle and the outer areas of the cortex, distant from the medullary or ...