Objective: Emergency department (ED) visits have decreased to varying extents worldwide during the COVID-19 pandemic. This has been linked to restricted access to health services in association with the pandemic to changes in social life, and to individuals avoiding health institutions in order not to contract the disease. Failure to access emergency department services for health problems requiring urgent care can lead to complications and to outcomes even resulting in mortality and disability. The purpose of this study was to examine the postponement of emergency department visits during the pandemic and explore the reasons for these delays. Method: A cross-sectional study was performed in the ED of a university hospital in the Black Sea region of Turkey. The study population consisted of patients aged 18 and over. Patients meeting the inclusion criteria were given a questionnaire developed that included a COVID-19 Phobia Scale. The data collection forms were administered by ED physicians via face-to-face interviews. Results: The research was completed with 352 patients. 27.0% of the participants stated delays in their emergency department visits due to COVID-19 pandemic. The most common reasons for postponing emergency department visits were reluctance to visit a hospital because of the pandemic (46.3%), lack of an individual to accompany the patient (28.4%), and difficulty in finding proper transportation (18.9%). ED visit delays were significantly higher among single patients than married ones and were significantly lower in patients aged 31-55 compared to other patients (p0.05). Conclusion: Approximately one in three patients delayed their ED visits due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to ‘fear of exposure to the disease’ which can be interpretated as a direct effect of the pandemic on postponement of emergency department visits, it also has indirect effects such as concerns over finding transportation and an individual to accompany the patient.

Forensic analysis has been a very powerful technique for discrimination among individuals since the 1980s. It serves social incidents such as uncovering the crime and the criminal, investigating the crime tools, inheritance-paternity cases, and kinship relations.It also determines whether the suspect and DNA samples from the scene come from the same sources. For these purposes, it is possible to analyze a variety of the samples (such as blood, semen, saliva, hair, and stain) taken from the crime scene or individuals. 1,2

When a complete gene or a specific nucleotide sequence is added (insertion) or removed (deletion) from DNA helices, these type of genetic variations are named as insertion or deletion, commonly abbre-viated "InDel". [1][2][3] InDel polymorphisms, which are biallelic length polymorphims, occur as a result of sequential mutations and are inherited to the offsprings according to Mendel's laws. 4 Although a