Erratum: Encoded evidence: DNA in forensic analysis (Nature Reviews Genetics (2004) 5 (739-751) doi: 10.1038/nrg1455);Encoded evidence: DNA in forensic analysis

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 739-751

  Jobling, Mark A ^a   Gill, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b FORENSIC SCIENCE SERVICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ACCIDENT; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CRIME; DATA BASE; DISASTER; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA PROBE; ETHICS; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMAN; MARKER GENE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; STATISTICS; VICTIM;

EID: 5044225199     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg1455     Document Type: Erratum

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