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Forensic Genetic Approaches for Identification of Human Skeletal Remains - Challenges, Best Practices, and Emerging Technologies (Hardcover)
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Forensic Genetic Approaches for Identification of Human Skeletal Remains - Challenges, Best Practices, and Emerging Technologies (Hardcover)
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Forensic Genetic Approaches for Identification of Human Skeletal
Remains: Challenges, Best Practices, and Emerging Technologies
provides best practices on processing bone samples for DNA testing.
The book outlines forensic genetics tools that are available for
the identification of skeletal remains in contemporary casework and
historical/archaeological investigations. Although the book focuses
primarily on the use of DNA for direct identification or kinship
analyses, it also highlights complementary disciplines often used
in concert with genetic data to make positive identifications, such
as forensic anthropology, forensic odontology, and forensic
art/sculpting. Unidentified human remains are often associated with
tragic events, such as fires, terrorist attacks, natural disasters,
war conflicts, genocide, airline crashes, homicide, and human
rights violations under oppressive totalitarian regimes. In these
situations, extensive damage to soft tissues often precludes the
use of such biological samples in the identification process. In
contrast, bone material is the most resilient, viable sample type
for DNA testing. DNA recovered from bone often is degraded and in
low quantities due to the effects of human decomposition,
environmental exposure, and the passage of time. The complexities
of bone microstructure and its rigid nature make skeletal remains
one of the most challenging sample types for DNA testing.
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