Better tools are needed for parentage and kinship studies

Transfusion

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 979-981

  Wenk, Robert E ^a   Chiafari, Francis A ^b   Gorlin, Jed ^b   Polesky, Herbert F ^b  

^a BRT Laboratories   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; BLOOD GROUP; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; NOTE; PARENTAGE ANALYSIS; PATERNITY TEST; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN POLYMORPHISM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TANDEM REPEAT;

ALLELES; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMANS; MALE; PATERNITY; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0037631615     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1537-2995.2003.00439.x     Document Type: Note

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