Table 2.
Quantity of DNA isolated by International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) silica or standard organic method
| Method |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| silica |
organic |
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| Sample | Mass (g) | concentration (pg/μL) | bone (ng/g) | concentration (pg/μL) | bone (ng/g) |
| 9100990 | 9.8 | 147 | 1.50 | 0.16* | 0.0016* |
| 9100856 | 8.8 | 82 | 0.94 | 0.22* | 0.0025* |
| 9101158 | 7.3 | 197 | 2.70 | 6* | 0.0777* |
| 9100880 | 7.6 | 135 | 1.78 | 6* | 0.0751* |
| 9100850 | 5.7 | 164 | 2.88 | 7 | 0.1160 |
| 9102659 | 8.9 | 23 | 0.25 | 9 | 0.0965 |
| 9100830 | 8.1 | 199 | 2.45 | 11 | 0.1339 |
| 9100986 | 7.1 | 48 | 0.68 | 11 | 0.1566 |
| 9100835 | 5.6 | 53 | 0.95 | 11* | 0.2017* |
| 9102658 | 8.1 | 39 | 0.48 | 15* | 0.1887* |
| 9100993 | 5.9 | 92 | 1.56 | 20 | 0.3380 |
| 9102665 | 8.0 | 44 | 0.55 | 27 | 0.3391 |
| 9100828 | 8.4 | 125 | 1.48 | 31 | 0.3662 |
| 9100854 | 5.7 | 50 | 0.88 | 39 | 0.6888 |
| 9100822 | 8.7 | 92 | 1.06 | 63 | 0.7246 |
| 9102654 | 5.6 | 186 | 3.31 | 68 | 1.2116 |
| 9102913 | 7.0 | 174 | 2.49 | 85 | 1.2192 |
| 9100838 | 8.0 | 152 | 1.91 | 121 | 1.5149 |
| 9102612 | 8.1 | 108 | 1.33 | 141 | 1.7440 |
| 9101338 | 5.7 | 546 | 9.58 | 256 | 4.4880 |
*Fewer than 16 loci with reportable alleles.