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DNA preservation in highly degraded skeletal remains from the Vietnam war-Characterization and DNA extraction evaluation for nuclear SNP panel testing.
Forensic science international. Genetics - 1 Apr 2026
Parsons Thomas J, Nguyen Nam N, Le Dung T, Chu Phuong T M, Vu Tuan A, Tran Vinh V, Do Phong H, Tran Linh H, Tran Ha M, Bui Mai T T, Hoang Thuy T, Ninh Lan T T, Vangeel Lisa, van Haperen Bas, Hill Kieren, Nguyen Chau, Forsythe Bethany, Chu Ha H, Hoang Ha, Tran Thanh T
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Recent advances in forensic genetics in NGS-based targeted SNP typing have opened new opportunities for the identification of highly degraded skeletal remains. This is particularly the case for missing from the Vietnam War, where DNA degradation and the need for distant kinship matching render STR testing largely ineffective. Hundreds of thousands of cases of Vietnamese combatants are unaccounted for from the...
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