Samples with greater than 90% of fragments sized below 200 bp were considered extremely degraded. Those samples with more than 90% of fragments sized between 200 and 400 bp were considered highly degraded and samples with greater than 90% of fragments sized above 400 bp were considered moderately degraded. These size ranges were used to test the genotyping success of the STR (100–400 bp) mini-STR (∼100–250bp)andSNP(∼80–120 bp) genotyping methods. The QIAxcel system provided a rapid, cost effective (less than 50c/sample) screening method for