Allele frequency distributions at several variable number of tandem repeat (VNTR) and short tandem repeat (STR) loci in a restricted Caucasian population from South Italy and their evaluation for paternity and forensic use

Molecular and Cellular Probes

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 299-308

  Pastore, Lucio ^a   Vuttariello, Emilia ^a   Sarrantonio, Claudia ^a   Coto, Iolanda ^a   Roviello, Silvana ^a   Fortunato, Giuliana ^a   Salvatore, Francesco ^a   Sacchetti, Lucia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Allele frequencies; South Italy population; STR; Subpopulations; VNTR

Indexed keywords

HLA DQ ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; FORENSIC SCIENCE; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMAN; ITALY; NORMAL HUMAN; PATERNITY TEST; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

EID: 0030220326     PISSN: 08908508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mcpr.1996.0039     Document Type: Article

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