Mutation rate at commonly used forensic STR loci: Paternity testing experience

Disease Markers

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 313-315

  Aşicioǧlu, Faruk ^a   Oguz Savran, Fatma ^b   Ozbek, Ugur ^a,c  

^a Council of Forensic Medicine ^*  (Turkey)

^b ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Mutation; Paternity testing; Short tandem repeat; STR

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; GAMETE; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MUTATION RATE; PATERNITY TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT;

EID: 15244356592     PISSN: 02780240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2004/643086     Document Type: Article

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