The application of traditional anthropological methods in a DNA-led identification process

Recovery, Analysis, and Identification of Commingled Human Remains

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 271-284

  Yazedjian, Laura ^a   Kešetović, Rifat ^a  

^a International Commission on Missing Persons   (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

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EID: 84857874123     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-59745-316-5_14     Document Type: Chapter

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