Y chromosome STR allelic and haplotype diversity in five ethnic Tamil populations from Tamil Nadu, India

Legal Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 265-269

  Balamurugan, Kuppareddi ^a   Suhasini, G ^b   Vijaya, M ^b   Kanthimathi, S ^b   Mullins, Nicole ^a   Tracey, Martin ^c   Duncan, George ^d  

^a The University of Southern Mississippi   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS   (India)

^c FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Broward County Sheriff's Office   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene diversity; Genetic distance; Indian population; Y STR; Y STR duplication; Y STR haplotypes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; DNA EXTRACTION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDIA; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION GENETICS; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 77955090444     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2010.05.008     Document Type: Article

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