Y-chromosomal microsatellite mutation rates in a population sample from northwestern Germany

International Journal of Legal Medicine

Volumn 121, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 359-363

  Hohoff, Carsten ^a   Dewa, Koji ^a,b   Sibbing, Ulla ^a   Hoppe, Karolin ^a   Forster, Peter ^c   Brinkmann, Bernd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Microsatellites; Mutation rates; Y STRs

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME LOSS; CHROMOSOME MUTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GENE LOCUS; GENE TRANSFER; GERMANY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MALE; MEIOSIS; MUTATION RATE; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; Y CHROMOSOME;

ALLELES; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; GENETICS, POPULATION; GERMANY; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MUTATION;

EID: 34548127657     PISSN: 09379827     EISSN: 14371596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00414-006-0123-9     Document Type: Article

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