GENETIC IDENTIFICATION OF SPANISH CIVIL WAR VICTIMS. THE STATE OF THE ART IN CATALONIA (Northeastern Spain)

At the end of 2016 and under the initiative and funding of the “Direcció General de Memòria democràtica-Departament de Justícia” (Generalitat of Catalonia), it was decided to recover and identify the remains of people disappeared in Catalonia during and after the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939).Anthropology, archaeology, history and genetics are part of the global procedure. To achieve identification by genotyping, two different genetic approaches have been carried out: 1) the directed identification through kinship analysis of alleged living relatives, when there is a previous evidence (archaeological, anthropological, historical) of a possible r elationship (direct search); 2) the random crossing of a genetic profile database of victims and another database of alleged relatives in search of a possible identification (random search).

Source: Forensic Science International: Genetics Supplement Series - October 18, 2019 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: S. Palomo-D íez, C. Gomes, A.M. López-Parra, C. Baeza-Richer, I. Cuscó, C. Raffone, E. García-Arumí, D.C. Vinueza-Espinosa, C. Santos, N. Montes, R. Rasal, O. Escala, J. Cuellar, E. Subirá, F. Casals, A. Malgosa, E. Tizzano, E. Tartera, G. Domenech, Source Type: research