Reconstructing recent human phylogenies with forensic STR loci: A statistical approach

BMC Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Agrawal, Suraksha ^a   Khan, Faisal ^a,b  

^a SANJAY GANDHI POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b BUNDELKHAND UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Forensic; Maximum likelihood; Neighbor joining; PC plot; Phylogeny; Short tandem repeats

Indexed keywords

AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; ETHNIC GROUP; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MUTATION RATE; NEGRO; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION RESEARCH; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; INDIA; META ANALYSIS; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; RELIGION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TANDEM REPEAT;

FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY; GENE FREQUENCY; HINDUISM; HUMANS; INDIA; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHYLOGENY; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES;

EID: 26444542507     PISSN: 14712156     EISSN: 14712156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2156-6-47     Document Type: Article

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