How high should paternity index be for reliable identification of war victims by DNA typing?

Croatian Medical Journal

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 322-326

  Biruš, Ivan ^a   Marcikić, Mladen ^a   Lauc, Davor ^b   Džijan, Snježana ^a   Lauc, Gordan ^a  

^a JOSIP JURAJ STROSSMAYER UNIVERSITY OF OSIJEK   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Paternity; Pedigree; Polymorphism (genetics); Tandem repeat sequences

Indexed keywords

AMELOGENIN;

ARTICLE; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PATERNITY; PEDIGREE; RELIABILITY; SKELETON; TANDEM REPEAT; WAR;

CONSANGUINITY; CROATIA; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; PARENTS; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES; WAR CRIMES;

EID: 0038011347     PISSN: 03539504     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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