Allele frequencies of 11 X-chromosomal loci in a population sample from Ghana

International Journal of Legal Medicine

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 81-83

  Poetsch, Micaela ^a   El Mostaqim, Daniela ^a   Tschentscher, Frank ^b   Browne, Edmund N L ^c   Timmann, Christian ^d   Horstmann, Rolf D ^d   Von Wurmb Schwark, Nicole ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ghana)

^c BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ghana; Multiplex PCR; Population data; STR; X chromosome

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GHANA; HUMAN; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION GENETICS; TANDEM REPEAT; X CHROMOSOME;

CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS, POPULATION; GHANA; HUMANS; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES;

EID: 67049098022     PISSN: 09379827     EISSN: 14371596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00414-008-0251-5     Document Type: Article

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