Polymerase slippage in relation to the uniformity of tetrameric repeat stretches

Forensic Science International

Volumn 135, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 163-166

  Klintschar, Michael ^a   Wiegand, Peter ^b  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Polymerase slippage; Sequence structure; STRs

Indexed keywords

DNA POLYMERASE; TETRAMER;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DNA MICROARRAY; HYPOTHESIS; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0042531995     PISSN: 03790738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0379-0738(03)00201-9     Document Type: Article

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