| Code Value |
Definition |
| Arrestee | The known sample from a person who has been arrested |
| Asylee | The known sample from an asylum seeker |
| Consensual Sex Partner | The known sample from a consensual sex partner, may be used in the mixture analysis for a sextual assault case. |
| Control | The known sample to be used as a positive control in QA processes. |
| Convicted Offender | The known sample from a person who has been convicted of a crime in federal, state, and/or local courts |
| Deportee | The known sample from a person who has been deported |
| Detainee | The known sample from a person who has been detained |
| Elimination | The known sample to be used to detect contamination in DNA profiles |
| Family Relative | The known sample from a person who is a family relative, may be used in the kinship analysis for a missing person case. The specific kinship between the relative and the missing person is defined in the Pedigree element. |
| Forensic | The latent sample from a field, e.g. a crime scene |
| Immigration Applicant | The known sample from an immigration applicant |
| Immigration Sponsor | The known sample from an immigration sponsor |
| Juvenile | Convicted offender who was a juvenile at the time of the conviction |
| Known Suspected Terrorist | The sample (reference or latent) from a person who is a known or suspected terrorist |
| Legal | The known sample from a person whose DNA sample is collected under applicable legal authorities. An example is a sample collected from a person found not guilty by reason of insanity who is required by the relevant federal/state/local law to provide a DNA sample for analysis and entry into a DNA database. |
| Missing Person | The latent sample from a presumed missing person artifact such as a toothbrush, may be used to search the unidentified person DNA profiles for identification |
| Other | Other category |
| Population | The known sample to be used for population frequency or study purpose |
| Refugee | The known sample from a person who has been recognised under the 1951 Convention relating to the status of refugees to be a refugee. |
| Spouse | The known sample from a spouse, may be used in the parentage trio analysis for a missing person case or a paternity case. |
| Staff | The known sample from a staff, used to detect contamination in the DNA profiles. |
| Suspect | The known sample from a person who is alleged to be the perpetrator of a crime |
| Training | The known sample to be used in DNA operation training, proficiency, and/or competency |
| Unaccompanied Minor | The known sample from an unaccompanied minor, may be used to search for the minor's parents/relatives for family reunification |
| Unidentified Person | The sample from an unidentified body in a disaster or a person who could not identify himself/herself such as an abandoned infant |
| Unspecified | Unspecified category |
| Victim | The known sample from a victim, may be used in the mixture analysis for a crime |
| Volunteer | The known sample from a person who volunteered a DNA sample |