A proposal for standardization in forensic canine DNA typing: Allele nomenclature of six canine-specific STR loci

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 274-281

  Hellmann, Andreas P ^a   Rohleder, Udo ^a   Eichmann, Cordula ^b   Pfeiffer, Ina ^c   Parson, Walther ^b   Schleenbecker, Uwe ^a  

^a Bundeskriminalamt   (Germany)

^b INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Allele nomenclature; Allelic ladder; Canis familiaris; DNA typing; Forensic science; Population data; Sequence data; Short tandem repeats (STR)

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ALLELE; AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DOG; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NOMENCLATURE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DOGS; GENE FREQUENCY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 33644879153     PISSN: 00221198     EISSN: 15564029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1556-4029.2006.00049.x     Document Type: Article

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