Developing equine mtDNA profiling for forensic application

International Journal of Legal Medicine

Volumn 124, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 617-622

  Gurney, Susan M R ^a,b   Schneider, Sandra ^c   Pflugradt, René ^d,e   Barrett, Elizabeth ^f   Forster, Anna Catharina ^g   Brinkmann, Bernd ^a   Jansen, Thomas ^d   Forster, Peter ^a,h,i,j  

^a Institute of Forensic Genetics   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d Certagen GmbH   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^f Kenton   (United Kingdom)

^g Russee   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ CHURCHILL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^j Genetic Ancestor Ltd   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

Breed; Control region; D loop; Evolution; Genetic; Horse; Mitochondrial; Sequence

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FORENSIC GENETICS; GENETICS; HAIR; HORSE; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; REGULATOR GENE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BREEDING; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FORENSIC GENETICS; HAIR; HORSES; LOCUS CONTROL REGION; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 78651262356     PISSN: 09379827     EISSN: 14371596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00414-010-0506-9     Document Type: Article

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