Gene Codes Corp. Helps Identify 9/11 Victims
Five years after the September 11 terrorist attacks, DNA testing is still being conducted on recovered remains at the World Trade Center; more than 1,100 people still haven’t been identified out of the 2,749 people who were killed. Gene Codes Corporation has been part of the effort and even developed the Mass-Fatality Identification System, or M-FISys, pronounced “emphasis.”
The M-FISys software, produced by the company’s Gene Codes Forensics subsidiary, sorts information from DNA tests conducted on remains and matches them with DNA samples from victims’ relatives and personal effects. Hundreds of World Trade Center victims were identified by DNA alone.
The M-FISys software will also be used in the DNA Shoah Project, “a genetic database of holocaust victim families.”
chron.com, September 8, 2006
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