World Trade Center human identification project: Experiences with individual body identification cases

Croatian Medical Journal

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 259-263

  Budimlija, Zoran M ^a,e   Prinz, Mechthild K ^a   Zelson Mundorff, Amy ^a   Wiersema, Jason ^b   Bartelink, Eric ^b   MacKinnon, Gaille ^c   Nazzaruolo, Bianca L ^a   Estacio, Sheila M ^a   Hennessey, Michael J ^d   Shaler, Robert C ^a  

^a NY City Off of Chf Med Examiner   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d GeneCodes Corporation   (United States)

^e Office of Chief Medical Examiner New York   (United States)

Author keywords

Bone and bones; Disasters; DNA; Forensic anthropology; Polymerase chain reaction; Tandem repeat sequences

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISASTER; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FATALITY; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TANDEM REPEAT; TAPHONOMY; TERRORISM; UNITED STATES;

DNA FINGERPRINTING; FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY; HUMANS; NEW YORK CITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES; TERRORISM;

EID: 0037673521     PISSN: 03539504     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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