Accurate STR Allele Designations at the FGA and vWA Loci Despite Primer Site Polymorphisms

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 250-254

  Hendrickson, Brant C ^a   Leclair, Benoit ^a   Forrest, Shawn ^a   Ryan, John ^a   Ward, Brian E ^a   Petersen, Daniel ^b   Kupferschmid, Timothy D ^c   Scholl, Thomas ^a  

^a Myriad Genetic Laboratories   (United States)

^b Portland Forensic Laboratory   (United States)

^c Maine State Police Crime Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Allele dropout; DNA typing; FGA; Forensic science; Short tandem repeat; Single nucleotide polymorphism; vWA

Indexed keywords

DNA; GENOMIC DNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BLOOD STAIN; CRIME; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; FORENSIC SCIENCE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OFFENDER; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

EID: 1542286903     PISSN: 00221198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1520/jfs2003192     Document Type: Article

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