Molecular genetic identification of skeletal remains from the Second World War Konfin i mass grave in Slovenia

International Journal of Legal Medicine

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 307-317

  Zupanič Pajnič, Irena ^a   Gornjak Pogorelc, Barbara ^a   Balažic, Jože ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Forensic identification; Mass grave victims; mtDNA; Second World War bones; Slovenia; STR

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMUR; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSTHUMOUS CARE; SLOVENIA; STATISTICAL MODEL; TANDEM REPEAT; WAR; Y CHROMOSOME;

BURIAL; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGIONS; DNA; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FEMUR; FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SLOVENIA; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES; WORLD WAR II;

EID: 77954533233     PISSN: 09379827     EISSN: 14371596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00414-010-0431-y     Document Type: Article

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