Success rates of nuclear short tandem repeat typing from different skeletal elements

Croatian Medical Journal

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 486-493

  Miloš, Ana ^a   Selmanović, Arijana ^a   Smajlović, Lejla ^a   Huel, René L M ^a   Katzmarzyk, Cheryl ^a   Rizvić, Adi ^a   Parsons, Thomas J ^a  

^a International Commission on Missing Persons   (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA; CORTICAL BONE; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA ISOLATION; EXHUMATION; FEMUR; GEOGRAPHY; HUMERUS; RADIUS; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; SKELETON; ULNA; YUGOSLAVIA;

BONE AND BONES; BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA; DNA; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY; FORENSIC DENTISTRY; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; TOOTH; WAR;

EID: 34548218334     PISSN: 03539504     EISSN: 13328166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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