Forensic DNA Challenges: Replacing Numbers with Names of Fosse Ardeatine's Victims

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 905-908

  Pietrangeli, Ilenia ^a   Caruso, Vincenzo ^a   Veneziano, Liana ^b   Spinella, Aldo ^c   Arcudi, Giovanni ^d   Giardina, Emiliano ^a   Novelli, Giuseppe ^a,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c Direzione Centrale Anticrimine   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^e Fondazione Livio Patrizi   (Italy)

^f FONDAZIONE POLICLINICO UNIVERSITARIO A GEMELLI IRCCS   (Italy)

Author keywords

anthropological; DNA analysis; Forensic science; mass disaster; mitochondrial analysis; skeletal remains

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE DEFECT; DNA SEQUENCE; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MITOCHONDRION; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BONE AND BONES; COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGIONS; CRIME VICTIMS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EXHUMATION; FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; ITALY; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WORLD WAR II;

EID: 67650662237     PISSN: 00221198     EISSN: 15564029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1556-4029.2009.01052.x     Document Type: Article

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