Defining microsatellite alleles by genotyping global indigenous human populations and non-human primates

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 496-499

  Jin, Li ^a,c   Underhill, Peter A ^b   Buoncristiani, Martin ^b   Robertson, James M ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b PERKINELMER INC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA typing; forensic science; genetic markers; microsatellite; short tandem repeats; tetranucleotide loci

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TANDEM REPEAT; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

EID: 0030903395     PISSN: 00221198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1520/jfs14154j     Document Type: Article

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