Quantitative polymerase chain reaction-based assay for estimating DNA yield extracted from domestic cat specimens

Croatian Medical Journal

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 327-331

  Menotti Raymond, Marilyn ^a   David, Victor ^a   Wachter, Leslie ^b   Yuhki, Naoya ^a   O'Brien, Stephen J ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Cats; Forensic medicine; Polymerase chain reaction; Short interspersed nucleotide elements; Tandem repeat sequences

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

ARTICLE; CAT; CRIME; DNA EXTRACTION; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHORT INTERSPERSED REPEAT; TANDEM REPEAT;

ANIMALS; CATS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FORENSIC MEDICINE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHORT INTERSPERSED NUCLEOTIDE ELEMENTS;

EID: 0037673433     PISSN: 03539504     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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