**2.2 Lower limb bones**

As noted above, femurs were the most frequent type of bones for DNA analysis; rare cases were presented by the tibia. In three cases, bone fragments (cuts) from lower limbs were provided without specifying their localization. Stable genetic profiles were obtained in 90% of cases of examined bones.

It i's significant tooworth noting that in 30% of cases of lower limb bones genotyping, STR profiles were obtained only after repeated DNA extraction using the same or different extraction methods.
