Y chromosome STR typing in crime casework

Forensic Science, Medicine, and Pathology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 77-84

  Roewer, Lutz ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Crime casework; DNA mixture analysis; Haplotyping; Intelligence information; Match probability; Population databases; Population genetics; Y chromosome; Y STR

Indexed keywords

DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MALE; RACE; RAPE; REVIEW; TANDEM REPEAT; Y CHROMOSOME;

CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENETIC MARKERS; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MALE; RAPE; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES;

EID: 71449103477     PISSN: 1547769X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12024-009-9089-5     Document Type: Review

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