Improved Y-STR typing for disaster victim identification, missing persons investigations, and historical human skeletal remains

Identification of Human Decomposed Remains Using the STR Systems: Effect on Typing Results

This report covers our starting experience on the DNA identification of the post-mortem remains recovered from the battlefields, and illustrates some effects on typing results when STR systems are used for DNA typing of decomposed human remains. This study is primarily concerned with the amplification of degraded DNA samples. Reports of identification by family studies will be presented elsewhere.

STR-typing of ancient skeletal remains: which multiplex-PCR kit is the best?

AIM To comparatively test nine co mmercially available short tandem repeat (STR)-multiplex kits (PowerPlex 16, 16HS, ES, ESI17, ESX17, S5 [all Promega]; AmpFiSTR Identifiler, NGM and SEfiler [all Applied Biosystems]) for their efficiency and applicability to analyze ancient and thus highly degraded DNA samples. METHODS Fifteen human skeletal remains from the late medieval age were obtained an...

Genetic identification of missing persons: DNA analysis of human remains and compromised samples.

Human identification has made great strides over the past 2 decades due to the advent of DNA typing. Forensic DNA typing provides genetic data from a variety of materials and individuals, and is applied to many important issues that confront society. Part of the success of DNA typing is the generation of DNA databases to help identify missing persons and to develop investigative leads to assist...

Identification of Skeletal Remains

Bioarchaeology: Scientific Studies of Archaeological Human Skeletal Remains

Bioarchaeology is an interdisciplinary academic specialty, which through the scientific analysis and interpretation of archaeological human skeletal remains, bridges the link between the biological sciences, medicine, anthropology and social sciences. The cornerstone of bioarchaeology is the interaction between culture and human biology. Since the study of people and ancient societies is one of...