Properties of novel and widely studied Y-STR loci in three South African populations

Forensic Science International

Volumn 168, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 154-161

  Leat, Neil ^a   Ehrenreich, Liezle ^a   Benjeddou, Mongi ^a   Cloete, Kevin ^a   Davison, Sean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Gene diversity; Stutter; Y chromosome; Y STR

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR MARKER; PRIMER DNA;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOUTH AFRICA; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 34247380728     PISSN: 03790738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2006.07.009     Document Type: Article

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