Amelogenin sex determination by pyrosequencing of short PCR products

International Journal of Legal Medicine

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 333-335

  Tschentscher, Frank ^a,c   Frey, Ulrich H ^a   Bajanowski, Thomas ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^c Landeskriminalamt NRW   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amelogenin gene; Pyrosequencing; Sex determination; Short fragments

Indexed keywords

AMELOGENIN;

ARTICLE; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENE INSERTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYROSEQUENCING; SEX DETERMINATION; Y CHROMOSOME;

AMELOGENIN; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; FEMALE; FORENSIC GENETICS; HUMANS; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEX DETERMINATION (ANALYSIS);

EID: 44949122560     PISSN: 09379827     EISSN: 14371596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00414-008-0228-4     Document Type: Article

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