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Nature 441, 673 (8 June 2006) | doi:10.1038/441673a; Published online 7 June 2006
Disasters drive DNA forensics to reunite families
Claire Ainsworth
Forensic tools developed because of the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 and the Indian Ocean tsunami of 26 December 2004 could soon find a happier use — helping reunite Jewish families separated by the Holocaust.The DNA Shoah project, announced on 1 June at the Human Genome Organisation's meeting in Helsinki, Finland, is the brainchild of Syd Mandelbaum, whose parents survived the Holocaust, or Shoah as it is known in Hebrew.
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