Specific quantification of human genomes from low copy number DNA samples in forensic and ancient DNA studies

Croatian Medical Journal

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 273-280

  Alonso, Antonio ^a   Martín, Pablo ^a   Albarrán, Cristina ^a   García, Pilar ^a   Primorac, Dragan ^b   García, Oscar ^c   Fernández de Simón, Lourdes ^a   García Hirschfeld, Julia ^a   Sancho, Manuel ^a   Fernández Piqueras, Jose ^d  

^a Biology Section Apdo 863 E 41080   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SPLIT   (Croatia)

^c Area de Laboratorio Ertzaintza   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

DNA; DNA fingerprinting; DNA mitochondrial; Evolution; Forensic medicine; Polymerase chain reaction; Tandem repeat sequences

Indexed keywords

AMELOGENIN; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; REPETITIVE DNA;

DNA DETERMINATION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA SEQUENCE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; HYBRIDIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; TANDEM REPEAT; TECHNIQUE;

AMELOGENIN; COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGIONS; DENTAL ENAMEL PROTEINS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEX DETERMINATION (ANALYSIS); TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES;

EID: 0038687926     PISSN: 03539504     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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