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UB and FBG participate in a pioneering human DNA bank for relatives of Spanish Civil War victims

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 22.05.2014

UB and FBG participate in a pioneering human DNA bank for relatives of Spanish Civil War victims

The Laboratory of Forensic Genetics of the Legal and Forensic Medicine Unit at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Barcelona (UB), together with the Bosch i Gimpera Foundation, is in charge of creating and maintaining a human DNA bank for the relatives of victims of the Spanish Civil War. Its aim is to help those people who are looking for their relatives' disappeared bodies which may be in any of the 240 mass graves that are in Catalonia.


Genetic identity tests have been used to identify a body, but it is not common —in fact, there is only one similar case in Bosnia and Herzegovina— to create a bank with frozen DNA samples to be used when unidentified bodies can be exhumed.

It has just been set up a crowd funding campaign on the website Verkami to collect money to fund the bank: http://vkm.is/bancADN

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