Application of forensic DNA testing in the legal system

Croatian Medical Journal

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 32-46

  Primorac, Dragan ^a   Schanfield, Moses S ^b   Primorac, Damir ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SPLIT   (Croatia)

^b Analytical Genetic Testing Center   (United States)

^c Municipal Court ^*  (Croatia)

Author keywords

Anthropology, forensic; DNA fingerprinting; Forensic medicine; Fragment length; Jurisprudence; Legal medicine; Minisatellite repeats; Paternity; Polymerase chain reaction; Polymorphism, restriction

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AUTOMATION; COMPETENCE; CRIMINOLOGY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA SEQUENCE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; JURISPRUDENCE; PATERNITY TEST; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROBABILITY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; REVIEW;

DNA; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; PATERNITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; STATISTICS;

EID: 0034056459     PISSN: 03539504     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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