Malignant tumors and forensics - Dilemmas and proposals

Croatian Medical Journal

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 218-227

  Budimlija, Zoran ^a   Lu, Connie ^a   Axler DiPerte, Grace ^a   Seifarth, Jessica ^b   Popiolek, Dorota ^c   Fogt, Franz ^d   Prinz, Mechthild ^a  

^a Department of Forensic Biology ^*  (United States)

^b PACE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; HUMAN; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; GENETICS; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY;

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMANS; LOSS OF HETEROZYGOSITY; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 70149102178     PISSN: 03539504     EISSN: 13328166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3325/cmj.2009.50.218     Document Type: Article

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