Different ancestor alleles: A reason for the bimodal fragment size distribution in the minisatellite D2S44 (YNH24)

European Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 597-602

  Holmlund, G ^a,b   Lindblom, B ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF FORENSIC GENETICS AND FORENSIC TOXICOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Evolution; Minisatellite repeats

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; DNA MINISATELLITE;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

EID: 0032435197     PISSN: 10184813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.ejhg.5200232     Document Type: Article

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