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This part of ISO/IEC 19794 specifies a data interchange format for the exchange of DNA data for personidentification or verification technologies that utilize human DNA.It will provide the ability for DNA profile data to be exchanged and used for comparison (subject to privacyregulations) with DNA profile data produced by any other system that is based on a compatible DNA profilingtechnique and where the data format conforms to this part of ISO/IEC 19794.This part of ISO/IEC 19794 is intended to cover current forensic DNA profiling or typing techniques that arebased on short tandem repeats (STRs), including STRs on the Y chromosome (Y-STRs), as well asmitochondrial DNA.A single DNA data record for a subject may require data resulting from more than one of these different DNAtechniques. This part of ISO/IEC 19794 enables data for multiple DNA techniques to be presented in a singlerecord for a given subject.This data format has been prepared in light of ongoing efforts to reduce human involvement in the processing(enrolment and comparison) of DNA. In anticipation of the data format requirements for automated DNAtechniques this part of ISO/IEC 19794 will describe a format for both processed and raw (electrophoretic) DNAdata. Extensible Mark-up Language (XML) encoding of the data is used to specify DNA data interchange. Anormative XML Schema Definition (XSD) specification is provided in Annex B.This part of ISO/IEC 19794 is not intended for any other purposes than exchange of DNA for biometricverification and identification of individuals, in particular does not exchange medical and other health-relatedinformation.