Purification of nuclear DNA from single hair shafts for DNA analysis in forensic sciences

Legal Medicine

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 61-67

  Nozawa, Hideki ^a   Yamamoto, Toshimichi ^a   Uchihi, Rieko ^a   Yoshimoto, Takashi ^a   Tamaki, Keiji ^a   Hayashi, Seiji ^b   Ozawa, Tomowo ^b   Katsumata, Yoshinao ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

CTAB DNA precipitation; DNA typing; Hair shaft; HLA DQA1; Semi nested PCR

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002306108     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1344-6223(99)80014-5     Document Type: Article

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