Skeletal remains from world war II mass grave: From discovery to identification

Croatian Medical Journal

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 520-527

  Definis Gojanović, Marija ^a   Sutlović, Davorka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SPLIT   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROFORM; ISOPENTYL ALCOHOL; PHENOL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA ISOLATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GUNSHOT INJURY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; SKELETON; WAR; Y CHROMOSOME;

BONE AND BONES; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; WORLD WAR II;

EID: 34548232803     PISSN: 03539504     EISSN: 13328166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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