Retrieving DNA from highly degraded human skeletal remains is still a challenge due to low
concentration and fragmentation, which makes it difficult to extract and purify. Recent works …

The quality and efficiency of a standard organic DNA isolation method and a silica‐based
method using the QIAGEN Blood Maxi Kit were compared to obtain human DNA and short …

Abstract Medieval cemeteries Klisa-Guca Gora, Alihodze and Glavica-Han Bila located in
the Travnik area (Travnik, Bosnia and Herzegovina) were archaeologically examined in the …

Postmortem degradation of DNA was quantitatively estimated. Brain, liver, kidney and
muscle samples were obtained from sacrificed rats left at 20℃ or 4℃. The quantity of DNA …

Testis-specific protein Y-encoded (TSPY) is present in varying copy number in both human
(20–76 copies) and cattle (37–200 copies), and some studies have linked this variation to …

Bone exposure to heat in the presence of moisture breaks the phosphodiester bonds of the
backbone, leaving sheared DNA in bone cells. This also limits the possibility of generating a …

In our standard protocol for DNA extraction from skeletal remains of unidentified bodies,
bone lysates resulting from decalcification and Proteinase K treatment were purified with the …

Between 1990 and 2018, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency submitted 2177 cranial
elements and 1565 teeth to the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System—Armed Forces …

This article presents the multidisciplinary effort in trying to identify the skeletal remains of 100
N orwegian soldiers serving in the G erman army, killed in K arelia R ussia in 1944, from the …

A task-force to resolve 26 pending forensic caseworks was carried out. We tested four
different protocols to extract DNA from molar and pre-molar teeth from 26 cadavers with post …