Identifying missing people in the National Database of Genetic Profiles for Application in Judicial Investigation —CODIS—: Two case reports
Armed conflict in Colombia has played an important role in the missing people phenomenon, in which the Government has the duty to identify, recover and investigate the crime in the process of the victims’ reparation. However, identifying missing people is a complex process because of the huge amoun...
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| Language: | English |
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Universidad Nacional de Colombia
2015-07-01
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| Series: | Case Reports |
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| Online Access: | https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/care/article/view/49455 |
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| Summary: | Armed conflict in Colombia has played an important role in the missing people phenomenon, in which the Government has the duty to identify, recover and investigate the crime in the process of the victims’ reparation. However, identifying missing people is a complex process because of the huge amount of time it consumes and the lack of information regarding the identity of the missing people, which is the norm in most of the cases. In such cases in which there is little information on the identity of missing people (including data of their relatives), DNA analysis and databases are of key importance in the identification process. This is why we present two cases that exemplify the role of DNA databases in the successful identification of missing people.
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| ISSN: | 2462-8522 |