DNA analysis of family members with deletion in Yp11.2 region containing amelogenin locus

Legal Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 39-42

  Kumagai, Reiko ^a   Sasaki, Yoshitoshi ^b   Tokuta, Takuya ^b   Biwasaka, Hitoshi ^b   Aoki, Yasuhiro ^a  

^a IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amelogenin; Deletion; DYS458; Sex test; Y chromosome

Indexed keywords

AMELOGENIN;

ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; CADAVER; CHROMOSOME DELETION Y; CHROMOSOME YP; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; ETHNICITY; FIRE; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; JAPANESE; MALE; MARKER GENE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RELATIVE;

AMELOGENIN; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; DNA; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; NUCLEAR FAMILY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES;

EID: 36448980994     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2007.05.009     Document Type: Article

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