Qingzhen Zhang, Liyan Liu, Yu Wang, Qiqi Liu, Minli Zhang, Xiaochang Zhang, Zhaobing Tang, Xiaoran Ding, XiuJuan Zhang, Liting Shao, Zhe Zhou, Shengqi Wang
The genetic identification of skeletal remains from Chinese People's Volunteers (CPVs) of the Korean War has been challenging because of the degraded DNA samples and the lack of living close relatives. This study established a workflow for identifying CPVs by combining Y-chromosome short tandem repeats (Y-STRs), mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) hypervariable regions I and II, autosomal STRs (aSTRs), and identity-informative SNPs (iiSNPs). A total of 20 skeletal remains of CPVs and 46 samples from their alleged relatives were collected...
March 29, 2024: Electrophoresis