Novel Paternity Testing by Distinguishing Parental Alleles at a VNTR Locus in the Differentially Methylated Region Upstream of the Human H19 Gene

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1275-1279

  Naito, Emiko ^a   Dewa, Koji ^a   Fukuda, Masaaki ^a   Sumi, Hirokazu ^a   Wakabayashi, Yu Ichi ^a   Umetsu, Kazuo ^b   Yuasa, Isao ^c   Yamanouchi, Haruo ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; Forensic science; Human H19 gene; Minisatellite; Parentally imprinted allele typing; Paternity testing

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; PROTEINASE K;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; FORENSIC SCIENCE; GENE LOCUS; GENOTYPE; GERMANY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; JAPAN; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATERNITY TEST; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

EID: 0242526207     PISSN: 00221198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1520/jfs2002439     Document Type: Article

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