Application of low copy number STR typing to the identification of aged, degraded skeletal remains

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1322-1327

  Irwin, Jodi A ^a,c   Leney, Mark D ^b,d,e   Loreille, Odile ^a   Barritt, Suzanne M ^a   Christensen, Alexander F ^b   Holland, Thomas D ^b   Smith, Brion C ^a   Parsons, Thomas J ^a,f  

^a ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command Central Identification Laboratory ^*  (United States)

^c Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia   (United States)

^f International Commission on Missing Persons   (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Author keywords

Degraded skeletal remains; DNA typing; Forensic sciences; Low copy number; Mitochondrial DNA; Short tandem repeat; Y chromosome

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; SKELETON; UNITED STATES; WAR; Y CHROMOSOME;

CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGIONS; DNA DEGRADATION, NECROTIC; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY; HUMANS; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES;

EID: 34548200829     PISSN: 00221198     EISSN: 15564029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1556-4029.2007.00561.x     Document Type: Article

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