A proposed nomenclature for 15 canine-specific polymorphic STR loci for forensic purposes

International Journal of Legal Medicine

Volumn 118, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 249-266

  Eichmann, C ^a   Berger, B ^a   Parson, W ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Canine short tandem repeats; Canis familiaris; Intermediate alleles; Sequence variants; STR allele nomenclature

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS; DOG; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; NOMENCLATURE; NONHUMAN; POLYMORPHIC LOCUS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DOGS; ELECTROPHORESIS, CAPILLARY; FORENSIC MEDICINE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 6344241442     PISSN: 09379827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00414-004-0452-5     Document Type: Article

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