Identifying individuals by sequencing mitochondrial DNA from teeth

Nature Genetics

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1992, Pages 135-138

  Ginther, Charles ^a   Issel Tarver, Laurie ^a   King, Mary Claire ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TIME; TOOTH;

BASE SEQUENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMAN; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TIME FACTORS; TOOTH;

EID: 0026937233     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1092-135     Document Type: Article

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