DNA analysis in identifying mass disaster victims
Journal Title: IP International Journal of Forensic Medicine and Toxicological Sciences - Year 2018, Vol 3, Issue 3
Abstract
Disaster victim identification is very important for legal administration and humanity reasons Disasters include airplane crashes fire disasters volcanoes hurricane tornadoes wars and flood Methods of identification include visual identification fingerprints DNA analysis personal objects and odontology DNA analysis is an important method of disaster victim identification particularly when other methods of identification are not possible or not conclusive The current article enumerates and reviews the role played by DNA analysis in identifying mass disaster victimsKeywords DNA Mass disaster Forensic Identification
Authors and Affiliations
Vagish Kumar L S, Vina R Vaswani, Leena K Pramod
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- EP ID EP486730
- DOI 10.18231/2456-9615.2018.0010
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