Failed PCR amplifications of MBP-STR alleles due to polymorphism in the primer annealing region

International Journal of Legal Medicine

Volumn 108, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 313-315

  Gusmão, Leonor ^a   Amorim, António ^a   Prata, Maria Joao ^a   Pereira, Luísa ^a   Lareu, Maria Victoria ^b   Carracedo, Angel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Exclusions; MBP; Paternity investigations; Population genetics; Sequence data; STR

Indexed keywords

MYELIN BASIC PROTEIN; REPETITIVE DNA;

ARTICLE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ALLELES; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYELIN BASIC PROTEINS; PATERNITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PORTUGAL; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0029980969     PISSN: 09379827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02432126     Document Type: Article

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