Identification of a D8S1179 primer binding site mutation and the validation of a primer designed to recover null alleles

Forensic Science International

Volumn 133, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 220-227

  Leibelt, Craig ^a   Budowle, Bruce ^b   Collins, Patrick ^a   Daoudi, Yasser ^a   Moretti, Tamyra ^c   Nunn, Gary ^a   Reeder, Dennis ^a   Roby, Rhonda ^a  

^a APPLIED BIOSYSTEMS   (United States)

^b FBI   (United States)

^c Federal Bureau of Investigation   (United States)

Author keywords

AmpF STR ; D8S1179; Multiplex; PCR; Primer binding site mutation; STR; Validation

Indexed keywords

MAGNESIUM ION; PRIMER DNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NULL ALLELE; POINT MUTATION; POPULATION GENETIC PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TANDEM REPEAT; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0037764728     PISSN: 03790738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0379-0738(03)00035-5     Document Type: Article

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