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Forensic identification of skeletal remains from members of Ernesto Che Guevara's guerrillas in Bolivia based on DNA typing.
International journal of legal medicine - 1 Jan 2000
Lleonart R, Riego E, Saínz de la Peña M V, Bacallao K, Amaro F, Santiesteban M, Blanco M, Currenti H, Puentes A, Rolo F, Herrera L, de la Fuente J
Abstract excerpt
We report the positive identification of several members of the guerrillas led by Ernesto "Che" Guevara on the 1960 s in Bolivia by means of DNA fingerprinting. Successful DNA typing of both short tandem repeat loci and the hypervariable region of the human mitochondrial DNA was achieved after extracting total DNA from bones obtained from two burial sites. Given the size of the Cuban database for the STR allele...
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