Resolving individuals contributing trace amounts of DNA to highly complex mixtures using high-density SNP genotyping microarrays

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Homer, Nils ^a,b   Szelinger, Szabolcs ^a   Redman, Margot ^a   Duggan, David ^a   Tembe, Waibhav ^a   Muehling, Jill ^a   Pearson, John V ^a   Stephan, Dietrich A ^a   Nelson, Stanley F ^b   Craig, David W ^a  

^a TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

ARTICLE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DNA MICROARRAY; FORENSIC GENETICS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; GENOME; HUMAN; MEDICAL GENETICS; METHODOLOGY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETICS, MEDICAL; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 50849101381     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000167     Document Type: Article

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