Forensic DNA analysis in the identification of human remains in mass graves

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Journal of Clinical Pathology and Forensic Medicine
Date Issued
2010
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Biljana Janeska
Aleksej Duma
Abstract
Routine techniques are often insufficient to address the identification of human remains in mass
graves. The major complicating factors include delayed exhumation, commingling of skeletal remains,
lack of ante-mortem information and attempts to conceal evidence of criminal activity. We have
elaborated a study on two mass graves that contained partly fragmented commingled remains from the
ethnic conflicts that took place in 2001 in the Republic of Macedonia. By using DNA typing of autosomal
and Y-chromosome short tandem repeat (STR) markers and by making comparisons with samples from
parents and siblings we identified all of the victims.
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DNA

autosomal and Y-chrom...

decomposed bodies

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