Personal Identification of Cold Case Remains Through Combined Contribution from Anthropological, mtDNA, and Bomb-Pulse Dating Analyses

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1354-1360

  Speller, Camilla F ^a   Spalding, Kirsty L ^b   Buchholz, Bruce A ^c   Hildebrand, Dean ^d   Moore, Jason ^a,d   Mathewes, Rolf ^a   Skinner, Mark F ^a   Yang, Dongya Y ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d BRITISH COLUMBIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Accelerator mass spectrometry; Ancient DNA; Bomb pulse; Cold case; Dental enamel; Forensic anthropology; Forensic science; Interdisciplinary; Mitochondrial DNA; Short tandem repeat

Indexed keywords

AMELOGENIN; MICROSATELLITE DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AGE DETERMINATION; ARTICLE; BONE DEVELOPMENT; CANADA; CASE REPORT; CEPHALOMETRY; CHEMISTRY; DENTISTRY; DENTITION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ENAMEL; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULUS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOMETRIC DATING; SKULL; TOOTH RADIOGRAPHY; TOOTH ROOT;

AGE DETERMINATION BY SKELETON; AGE DETERMINATION BY TEETH; AMELOGENIN; CANADA; CEPHALOMETRY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DENTAL ENAMEL; DENTITION, PERMANENT; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY; FORENSIC DENTISTRY; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; OSTEOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULUS; RADIOGRAPHY, DENTAL; RADIOMETRIC DATING; SKULL; TOOTH APEX;

EID: 84865861367     PISSN: 00221198     EISSN: 15564029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1556-4029.2012.02223.x     Document Type: Article

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