Identification of human remains by immobilized sequence-specific oligonucleotide probe analysis of mtDNA hypervariable regions I and II

Croatian Medical Journal

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 293-298

  Gabriel, Matthew N ^a   Calloway, Cassandra D ^b   Reynolds, Rebecca L ^b   Primorac, Dragan ^c  

^a San Francisco Police Department   (United States)

^b ROCHE MOLECULAR SYSTEMS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SPLIT   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Croatia; DNA, mitochondrial; Forensic anthropology; Forensic medicine; Oligonucleotide probes

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; DISASTER; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA SEQUENCE; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; FORENSIC MEDICINE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TANDEM REPEAT;

BLOOD STAINS; BONE AND BONES; COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGIONS; CROATIA; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY; HUMANS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WAR CRIMES;

EID: 0038349426     PISSN: 03539504     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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