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 victims. Keywords: DNA, Mass disaster, Forensic, Identification
Highlights
In recent years the world has experienced several mass disasters such as bombings, terrorism, hurricanes, earthquakes, air crashes
External examination can reveal presence of tattoos, scars and fingerprints which are highly useful for positive identification of the victim
The present article enumerates and reviews the role played by DNA analysis in identifying mass disaster victims
Summary
In recent years the world has experienced several mass disasters such as bombings, terrorism, hurricanes, earthquakes, air crashes. The present article enumerates and reviews the role played by DNA analysis in identifying mass disaster victims. In DANA air crash incident, 148 out of 152 (97.4%) disaster victims were identified using combination of forensic odontology with DNA method.[14] Dental photographs and radiographs were taken first.
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