#11640. A Swiss collaborative exercise for Disaster Victim Identification (DVI): Covering situations with different levels of complexity

August 2026publication date
Proposal available till 06-06-2025
4 total number of authors per manuscript0 $

The title of the journal is available only for the authors who have already paid for
Journal’s subject area:
Law;
Pathology and Forensic Medicine;
Places in the authors’ list:
place 1place 2place 3place 4
FreeFreeFreeFree
2350 $1200 $1050 $900 $
Contract №11640.1 Contract №11640.2 Contract №11640.3 Contract №11640.4
1 place - free (for sale)
2 place - free (for sale)
3 place - free (for sale)
4 place - free (for sale)

More details about the manuscript: Science Citation Index Expanded or/and Social Sciences Citation Index
Abstract:
The identification of victims of a disaster (DVI) requires the collaboration of different specialists. Within a DVI context, DNA analyses often play an important role. Six forensic genetic laboratories participated in an exercise where supposedly a plane had crashed. The goal of the exercise was to monitor participants use of dedicated software with ground truth cases and to make them aware of the existence of particular situations that may occur in real cases. This study shows that the majority of the participants used the software in an appropriate way. However, a few misleading conclusions were detected for the most challenging situations. These errors belonged to one of the following categories: false pedigree, false association using the higher LR, misleading contextual information (false paternity) and not clustering family members. Specific recommendations are provided in order to reduce misuse of the software and the risk of misinterpretations by using all the relevant information.
Keywords:
CODIS; Disaster victim identification; DVI; Familias; LR; Simulated DVI exercise

Contacts :
0