法医学杂志2022年10月第38卷第5期微生物组学的法医学应用新进展、挑战和机遇雷梵章1,陈曼1,梅书燕1,方雅婷1,2,朱波峰11.南方医科大学法医学院广州市法医多组学精准鉴识重点实验室,广东广州510515;2.安徽医科大学基础医学院,安徽合肥230031摘要:微生物群落演替与样本种族、性别、健康状况、生活方式、死亡时间等重要因素密切相关,具有较大的法医学潜在应用价值。本文总结了近年来微生物组学应用于法医学同一认定、地域特征鉴识、组织或体液来源鉴定以及死亡时间推断等方面的研究,并介绍了基于二代测序数据用于微生物学研究的主要机器学习算法。此外,还分析了当下法医微生物组学面临的检材提取与保存、标准化和数据库建设、伦理审查和实践适用性等问题。未来借助微生物多组学技术将有望以全面动态的角度探索微生态系统,从而推动法医微生物组学的应用发展。关键词:法医学;微生物组学;同一认定;地域特征鉴识;组织或体液来源鉴定;死亡时间推断;死因分析;综述中图分类号:DF795.2文献标志码:Adoi:10.12116/j.issn.1004-5619.2022.520303文章编号:1004-5619(2022)05-0625-15NewAdvances,ChallengesandOpportunitiesinForensicApplicationsofMicro⁃biomicsLEIFan-zhang1,CHENMan1,MEIShu-yan1,FANGYa-ting1,2,ZHUBo-feng11.SchoolofForensicMedicine,SouthernMedicalUniversity,GuangzhouKeyLaboratoryofForensicMulti-OmicsforPrecisionIdentification,Guangzhou510515,China;2.SchoolofBasicMedicalSciences,AnhuiMedicalUniversity,Hefei230031,ChinaAbstract:Thesuccessionofmicrobiotaiscloselyassociatedwithseveralessentialfactors,includingrace,sex,healthcondition,lifestyle,postmorteminterval,etc.,andithasgreatpotentialapplicationvalueinforensicmedicine.Thispapersummarizesrecentstudiesontheforensicapplicationsofthemi‐crobiome,includingindividualidentification,geographicalfeatureidentification,originidentificationofthetissueorbodyfluid,andpostmortemintervalestimation,andintroducesthecurrentmachinelearn‐ingalgorithmsformicrobiologyresearchbasedonnext-generationsequencingdata.Inaddition,thecurrentproblemsfacingforensicmicrobiomicssuchastheextractionandpreservationofsamples,con‐structionofstandardizationanddatabase,ethicalreviewandpracticalapplicabi...