Genotyping errors: Causes, consequences and solutions

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 847-859

  Pompanon, François ^a   Bonin, Aurélie ^a   Bellemain, Eva ^a   Taberlet, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ JOSEPH FOURIER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA; MOLECULAR MARKER; TAQ POLYMERASE;

AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DNA SEQUENCE; ERROR; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; SAMPLING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PLANT; STANDARD;

ANIMALS; GENOTYPE; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PLANTS; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 30044440451     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg1707     Document Type: Review

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