About the Authors

Michael D. Coble

Contributed equally to this work with: Michael D. Coble, Odile M. Loreille

mike.coble@us.army.mil

Affiliation Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Odile M. Loreille

Contributed equally to this work with: Michael D. Coble, Odile M. Loreille

Affiliation Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Mark J. Wadhams

Affiliation Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Suni M. Edson

Affiliation Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Kerry Maynard

Affiliation Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Carna E. Meyer

Affiliation Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Harald Niederstätter

Affiliation Institute of Legal Medicine, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria

Cordula Berger

Affiliation Institute of Legal Medicine, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria

Burkhard Berger

Affiliation Institute of Legal Medicine, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria

Anthony B. Falsetti

Affiliation University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Peter Gill

Affiliations Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom, Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Walther Parson

Affiliation Institute of Legal Medicine, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria

Louis N. Finelli

Affiliation Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MDC OML MJW HN CB BB WP LNF. Performed the experiments: OML MJW HN CB BB SME KM CEM WP. Analyzed the data: MDC OML MJW HN CB BB SME KM CEM ABF PG WP. Wrote the paper: MDC OML ABF PG WP.