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The Unique Identification of an Unknown Soldier from the Estonian War of Independence

Genes, 2021-10, Vol.12 (11), p.1722 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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Title:
The Unique Identification of an Unknown Soldier from the Estonian War of Independence
Author: Aaspõllu, Anu ; Allmäe, Raili ; Puss, Fred ; Parson, Walther ; Pihkva, Küllike ; Kriiska-Maiväli, Kairi ; Unt, Arnold
Subjects: anthropological assessment ; Archives ; Armed Conflicts - history ; Body Remains - chemistry ; Bones ; Case Report ; Cellulose ; Chromosomes, Human, Y - genetics ; DNA typing ; Estonia ; Forensic Anthropology ; genealogy/kinship analysis ; Government archives ; Haplotypes ; History, 20th Century ; Human remains ; human remains identification ; Humans ; Identification ; Male ; Microsatellite Repeats ; Military Personnel - history ; Morphology ; Pedigree ; Sutures ; Tooth - chemistry ; War ; Y chromosomes ; Y-chromosomal STR haplotypes
Is Part Of: Genes, 2021-10, Vol.12 (11), p.1722
Description: The identification of human remains is challenging mostly due to the bad condition of the remains and the available background information that is sometimes limited. The current case report is related to the identification of an unknown soldier from the Estonian War of Independence (1918-1920). The case includes an anthropological study of the remains, examinations of documents found with the exhumed remains, and kinship estimations based on archival documents, and DNA analyses. As the preliminary data pointed to remains of male origin, Y-chromosomal STR (short tandem repeat) analyses of 22 Y-STR loci were used to analyze the exhumed teeth. Reference samples from individuals from two paternal lineages were collected based on archival documents. Y-chromosomal STR results for the tooth samples were consistent with a patrilineal relationship to only one reference sample out of two proposed paternal lineages. Based on the provided pedigrees in the consistent case, the Y-STR results are approximately four million times more likely if the tooth sample originated from an individual related along the paternal line to the matching reference sample, than if the tooth sample originated from another person in the general population. Special considerations have to be met when limited evidence is available.
Publisher: Switzerland: MDPI AG
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 2073-4425
EISSN: 2073-4425
DOI: 10.3390/genes12111722
PMID: 34828329
Source: MEDLINE
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