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'Breakthrough' genealogy tests can identify 9/11 victims 25 years later
Officials used genetic genealogy to identify the 1,651st World Trade Center victim, a breakthrough in the long-running effort to name the missing.
- For the first time, New York City officials identified a 9/11 victim using genetic genealogy, which combines DNA testing with family tree research, marking a breakthrough 25 years after the attacks.
- Nearly 1,100 people killed at the World Trade Center remain unidentified a quarter-century after the attacks, representing about 40% of the total victims still awaiting formal identification.
- The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner and the NYPD Detective Bureau applied this method to victims with DNA profiles that did not match reference samples, enabling the identification.
- Dr. Jennifer Odien, a forensic anthropologist in the medical examiner's office, said, "We already can see that it's promising," noting 47 profiles may be ripe for future identification.
- Chief Medical Examiner Jason Graham told ABC News, "It's a breakthrough," emphasizing the city's renewed commitment to identifying remaining victims through methods unimaginable 25 years ago.
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The city of New York announced that it had identified a new victim of the September 11, 2001 attacks through genetic genealogy, the 1 651st victim in 3,000 who had been formally identified.
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