Stable isotope analysis: hair and nails

W. Meier-Augenstein; H.F. Kemp

Stable isotope analysis: hair and nails

W. Meier-Augenstein
, H.F. Kemp

Environmental & Biochemical Sciences

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While bone and teeth provide a long-term stable isotope record of a person's life history measured in years (see Stabel Isotope Analysis: Bone and Teeth), stable isotope profiles of hair and nail can yield information on a person's recent life circumstance up to 15 months into a person's past. Since hair and nail samples can be collected noninvasively, stable isotope profiles of these tissues may also be used to reveal information on recent geographic movement in living people. This information may prove useful to check on the veracity of a suspect's statement about their recent geographic movements.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Wiley's Encyclopaedia of Forensic Science
Editors	Allan Jamieson, Andre A. Moenssens
Publisher	John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
ISBN (Electronic)	9780470061589
ISBN (Print)	9780470018262
Publication status	Published - 15 Mar 2012

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