The Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine (VIFM) is calling for relatives of missing people to donate their saliva in the hope it will help to solve more than 140 baffling cases.

The newly launched Familial DNA Sample Collection Pilot Program aims to identify long-term missing people by linking the DNA of family members to unidentified human remains.

VIFM forensic anthropologist Dr Soren Blau told ABC Radio Melbourne she hoped the project would help to identify 142 people whose remains have been found in Victoria over the past 60 years.

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