STRs, mini STRs and SNPs - A comparative study for typing degraded DNA

Legal Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 68-74

  Senge, Tim ^a,b   Madea, Burkhard ^a   Junge, Anke ^a,c   Rothschild, Markus A ^b   Schneider, Peter M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c IMoGen GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

5' Nuclease assay; DNA degradation; Forensic genetics; Mini STR; Minisequencing; SNP typing

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; DNA; NUCLEASE;

ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; DNA DEGRADATION; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; FORENSIC MEDICINE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DNA; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ELECTROPHORESIS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SALIVA;

EID: 79251627059     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2010.12.001     Document Type: Article

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