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Forensic Validation of the 95K SNP Panel and the Parabon Fx Forensic Analysis Platform for Identification of US Military Unknowns Using Extended Kinship Inference.
Genes - 3 Mar 2026
Thomas Jacqueline Tyler, Cavagnino Courtney L, Sturk-Andreaggi Kimberly, Greytak Ellen M, Demarest Julie A, Barritt-Ross Suzanne M, McMahon Timothy P, Marshall Charla
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BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: To identify US military unknowns, the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System's Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory has historically relied upon mitochondrial DNA and Y-chromosomal short tandem repeat testing. Where no appropriate family reference sample (FRS) is available or skeletal samples are degraded, autosomal single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) testing with next-generation...
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