Haplotype analysis of a de novo allele at a vWF STR locus using flanking STR loci

Legal Medicine

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 188-192

  Tamura, Akiyoshi ^a   Tsuji, Hiroko ^a   Nishio, Hajime ^a   Suzuki, Koichi ^a  

^a OSAKA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Haplotype; Mutation; Paternity test; Short tandem repeat (STR); vWF

Indexed keywords

EID: 10644268650     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1344-6223(99)80036-4     Document Type: Article

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