Mystery solved: The identification of the two missing Romanov children using DNA analysis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Coble, Michael D ^a   Loreille, Odile M ^a   Wadhams, Mark J ^a   Edson, Suni M ^a   Maynard, Kerry ^a   Meyer, Carna E ^a   Niederstätter, Harald ^b   Berger, Cordula ^b   Berger, Burkhard ^b   Falsetti, Anthony B ^c   Gill, Peter ^d,e   Parson, Walther ^b   Finelli, Louis N ^a  

^a ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; DNA; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL INHERITANCE; CHILD; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENOTYPE; HETEROPLASMY; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; MALE; PEDIGREE; RELATIVE; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; SIBLING; SKELETON; TANDEM REPEAT; TOOTH; FORENSIC GENETICS; HISTORY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; PUBLIC FIGURE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; Y CHROMOSOME;

CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; DNA; FAMOUS PERSONS; FEMALE; FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY; FORENSIC GENETICS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RUSSIA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 62849097815     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004838     Document Type: Article

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