title: [The experience of using the FTA-carriers for blood sample storage while conducting the molecular-genetic identification of unidentified killed persons--victims of military actions in the territory of the Chechen Republic].
abstract: The activity of adapting and introducing the FTA-carriers for the storage of blood samples of relatives of missing service men for the purpose of using them in the consequent identification measures in respect to non-identified killed persons has been conducted in the Russian Federation within the framework of identification of service men killed in the Chechen territory during the 1994-1996 armed conflict. The article generalizes the experience of practical usage of FTA-cards as an element in the technological sequence of the molecular-genetic identification expertise. Methods related with application of FTA-technologies were tested; the efficiency of polymerized chain reaction was evaluated by using the matrix of immobilized DNA for hypo variable segments HVS-1 and HVS-2 as well as for the D-loop of mitochondrial DNA and for chromosomal STR-locuses D3S1358, vWA, FGA, D8S1179, D21S11, D18S51, D5S818, D13S317 and D7S820.
authors.forename: P L
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Ivanov
authors.forename: E Iu
authors.initials: EIu
authors.lastname: Zemskova
authors.forename: T A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Tarasova
authors.forename: S A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Frolova
authors.forename: L S
authors.initials: LS
authors.lastname: Mikhalkovich
authors.forename: I V
authors.initials: IV
authors.lastname: Kornienko
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D001774:Blood Chemical Analysis / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D001800:Blood Specimen Collection / Q000295:instrumentation*; D002102:Cadaver; D016172:DNA Fingerprinting; D004867:Equipment Design; D005554:Forensic Medicine; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D012426:Russia; D014857:Warfare