Ante-mortem data (AM)
Definition
Information about a person recorded before death: dental charts, medical records, photographs, physical descriptions, fingerprints, and DNA reference samples from biological relatives. The starting point for any identification comparison.
Related terms
- INTERPOL DVI forms
- Standardised yellow (AM) and pink (PM) forms developed by INTERPOL for recording ante-mortem and post-mortem data in a comparable structure. Used across...
- Likelihood ratio (LR)
- The ratio of two conditional probabilities: the probability of the observed evidence given the prosecution's hypothesis (same source), divided by the probability...
- Minimum number of individuals (MNI)
- The smallest number of distinct individuals required to account for all skeletal elements present in an assemblage. Determined by identifying the element...
- Post-mortem data (PM)
- Information recovered from unidentified remains: dental charting of recovered dentition, fingerprints from preserved skin, skeletal measurements, pathological findings, DNA profile from bone...
- STR profiling
- Short tandem repeat profiling, the dominant DNA typing method in forensic laboratories. It measures the number of repeated sequences at multiple specific...
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- Ante-mortem Data Collection and Victim IdentificationInformation about a person recorded before death: dental charts, medical records, photographs, physical descriptions, fingerprints, and DNA reference samples f...