Y-STR profiling in two Afghanistan populations

Legal Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 103-108

  Lacau, Harlette ^a,b   Bukhari, Areej ^a,b   Gayden, Tenzin ^a,b   La Salvia, Joel ^a,b   Regueiro, Maria ^a   Stojkovic, Oliver ^c   Herrera, Rene J ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Afghanistan; Haplotype; Hindu Kush Mountain range; Phylogenetic analyses; Y STR

Indexed keywords

AFGHANISTAN; ARTICLE; DNA EXTRACTION; GENE FREQUENCY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION RESEARCH; QUALITY CONTROL; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; Y CHROMOSOME;

AFGHANISTAN; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC VARIATION; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES;

EID: 79251610576     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2010.11.004     Document Type: Article

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