New York City’s medical examiner is leading a nationwide effort to collect genetic material and match it with unidentified human remains. Over the last decade, thousands of DNA samples have been donated to the city’s medical examiner’s office. The medical examiner’s office program is open to people whose loved ones have been missing 60 days or more. They don’t have to have died here in New York City,” says Mark Desire, assistant director of the medical examiner’s Department of Forensic Biology. Mary Lyall submitted her DNA to the New York City medical examiner, along with her husband’s, as part of her hunt for her missing daughter.

Source: National Post February 18, 2018 16:07 UTC