Ancestry analysis in the 11-M Madrid bomb attack investigation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Phillips, Christopher ^a   Prieto, Lourdes ^b   Fondevila, Manuel ^a   Salas, Antonio ^a   Gómez Tato, Antonio ^a   Álvarez Dios, José ^a   Alonso, Antonio ^c   Blanco Verea, Alejandro ^a   Brión, María ^a   Montesino, Marta ^b   Carracedo, Ángel ^a   Lareu, María Victoria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^c Biology Section Apdo 863 E 41080   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BOMB; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CODING AND CLASSIFICATION; DNA DETERMINATION; EUROPE; FORENSIC GENETICS; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; GENE FLOW; GENE LOCUS; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; NORTH AFRICA; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPAIN; TERRORISM; Y CHROMOSOME; ALGERIA; BAYES THEOREM; ETHNOLOGY; FORENSIC SCIENCE; GENETICS; PROBABILITY; TANDEM REPEAT; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGERIA; BAYES THEOREM; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FORENSIC SCIENCES; GENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROBABILITY; SPAIN; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES; TERRORISM;

EID: 68949113937     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006583     Document Type: Article

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