Hair Analysis
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Hair Analysis
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Uses
• Most often in forensics, comparison tests are done to identify similarities with victims.
• Other possible uses for hair is to do toxicology analysis.
• Can find chemicals in hair that are not able to be found in blood and urine.– Poisons, drugs, environmental exposures.
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Parts of the Hair• Part of the hair below the skin is called the
follicle.• When that part is removed from the body it is
called the bulb.• The shaft is the part that extends out from the
skin.• Contains 3 parts.– The medulla – innermost unstructured region– The cortex – structural support of the hair and color– The cuticle – outside layer
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Types of Hair
• Vellus – type of hair that is all over the body and is light and unnoticeable.
• Terminal – head hair • Androgenic terminal – hair that develops on
other parts of the body during puberty.• Balding is terminal hair turning to vellus.
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Hair growth• There are 3 steps to the hair growth cycle.– Anagen –growth phase – lasts up to 8 years – 85% of
hair on the head is in this stage.– Catagen – transition – lasts 2 weeks – follicle detaches
from shaft and pushes up.– Telegen – resting phase – lasts 1-4 months. No
change. 15% of hair on head in this phase.• When the cycle restarts in the anagen phase, the
old shaft is pushed out and causes normal shedding.
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Hair color• Color is created by two pigments, both are types of
melanin.• Most common is eumelanin which can be brown or
black.– Lots of brown eumelanin will be brown hair, a little brown
is blond hair.– Lots of black melanin is black hair, a low amount will be
gray hair.• Other type is pheomelanin which results in red hair.• White or gray hair is a lack of melanin.• Hair follicles can have more than one type, and a
person can have a mix.
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1Hair root from a cat. Usually frayed
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2Uniserial or ladder-like medulla in cat hair
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3Multiserial medulla from rabbit hair
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4Spinous scale pattern of seal hair
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5Human hair. Scale not easy to see without casting
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6Human root. Club shaped root is characteristic of dead or dying root in telogenic stage
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Forcibly removed human hair. Follicle is still attached
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8Freshly cut human hair.
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9Rounded edge means hair has not been freshly cut
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Dyed hair. Can be obvious since the color is even across the whole hair.
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12Some hairs have different shapes, so they are mounted longitudinally. This has a kidney shape.
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Lice on a hair. Eewwww!
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14Spinous or petal like scales found on mink, seals, and cats. Never human.
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15Coronol or crown like patter are found on rodents and bats. Rarely human.
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Imbricate or flattened scales common to human hairs.
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Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus)
Similar to human