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World Trade Centre forensics break new ground

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Attempts to identify 9/11 victims are pushing DNA fingerprinting forward.

Nineteen months after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the effort to identify victims' remains goes on. Forensic scientists working on the project are being forced to break new ground. They have come up with innovative tests and ways to interpret the resulting data.

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  1. Brenner, C. H. & Weir, B. S. Issues and strategies in the DNA identification of World Trade Center victims. Theoretical Population Biology, 63, 173 - 178, (2003).

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  1. John Whitfield
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Whitfield, J. World Trade Centre forensics break new ground. Nature (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/news030421-2

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