Forensic STRs as potential disease markers: A study of VWA and von Willebrand's Disease

Forensic Science International: Genetics

Volumn 1, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 253-261

  Laird, Rebecca ^a   Schneider, Peter M ^b   Gaudieri, Silvana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

DNA profiling; Haplotypes; Linkage disequilibrium; VWA; vWD; vWF

Indexed keywords

DNA; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MARKER; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FAMILY STUDY; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE MAP; HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION GENETICS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TAIWAN; VON WILLEBRAND DISEASE;

ALLELES; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FEMALE; FORENSIC GENETICS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC MARKERS; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TAIWAN; VON WILLEBRAND DISEASE; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

EID: 34548440298     PISSN: 18724973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2007.06.002     Document Type: Article

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