Identification of skeletal remains of Communist Armed Forces victims during and after World War II: Combined Y-chromosome short tandem repeat (STR) and miniSTR approach

Croatian Medical Journal

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 296-304

  Marjanović, Damir ^a,b   Durmić Pašić, Adaleta ^a   Kovačević, Lejla ^a   Avdić, Jasna ^a   Džehverović, Mirela ^a   Haverić, Sanin ^a   Ramić, Jasmin ^a   Kalamujić, Belma ^a   Bilela, Lada Lukić ^a   Škaro, Vedrana ^b   Projić, Petar ^b   Bajrović, Kasim ^a   Drobnič, Katja ^c   Davoren, Jon ^d   Primorac, Dragan ^e,f  

^a Institute for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology   (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

^b GENOS GLYCOSCIENCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Croatia)

^c Faculty for Justice and Security   (Slovenia)

^d Bode Technology   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SPLIT   (Croatia)

^f JOSIP JURAJ STROSSMAYER UNIVERSITY OF OSIJEK   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUTANOL; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ARMY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA ISOLATION; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; HUMAN; PATERNITY; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; SKELETON; TOOTH; VICTIM; VIOLENCE; WAR; Y CHROMOSOME; BONE; GENETICS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; SLOVENIA; SOLDIER;

BONE AND BONES; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; CRIME VICTIMS; FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MILITARY PERSONNEL; SLOVENIA; WORLD WAR II;

EID: 70149122328     PISSN: 03539504     EISSN: 13328166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3325/cmj.2009.50.296     Document Type: Article

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