A Y-STR database of Iranian and Azerbaijanian minority populations

Forensic Science International: Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Roewer, Lutz ^a   Willuweit, Sascha ^a   Stoneking, Mark ^b   Nasidze, Ivan ^b  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

AMOVA; Haplotypes; Iran; Population database; Y chromosome STRs

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AZERBAIJAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORENSIC GENETICS; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC DISTANCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; IRAN; MALE; MINORITY GROUP; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; Y CHROMOSOME;

AZERBAIJAN; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; IRAN; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES;

EID: 70649098404     PISSN: 18724973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2009.05.002     Document Type: Article

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