Enhanced kinship analysis and STR-based DNA typing for human identification in mass fatality incidents: The Swissair Flight 111 disaster

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 939-953

  Leclair, Benoît ^a,b   Frégeau, Chantal J ^a   Bowen, Kathy L ^a   Fourney, Ron M ^a  

^a ROYAL CANADIAN MOUNTED POLICE   (Canada)

^b Myriad Genetics Laboratories Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

CSF1PO; D13S317; D16S539; D18S51; D21S11; D3S1358; D5S818; D7S820; D8S1179; DNA typing; FGA; Forensic science; Mass disaster; Mass fatality incidents; Polymerase chain reaction; Software; TH01; TPOX; VWA

Indexed keywords

DNA;

AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT; ALGORITHM; ALLELE; BIOINFORMATICS; CALCULATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISASTER; DNA FINGERPRINTING; EVALUATION; FATALITY; GENE LOCUS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIN SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 4444316305     PISSN: 00221198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1520/jfs2003311     Document Type: Conference Paper

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