Inspecting close maternal relatedness: Towards better mtDNA population samples in forensic databases

Forensic Science International: Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 138-141

  Bodner, Martin ^a   Irwin, Jodi A ^b   Coble, Michael D ^b,c   Parson, Walther ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Kinship analysis; Maternal relatedness; mtDNA database; mtDNA quality control; Population sampling; STR

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FORENSIC GENETICS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; NUCLEIC ACID DATABASE; PEDIGREE; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT;

DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETICS, POPULATION; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PEDIGREE; PHYLOGENY; QUALITY CONTROL; SAMPLING STUDIES; SOFTWARE; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES;

EID: 79952706392     PISSN: 18724973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2010.10.001     Document Type: Article

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