High-throughput sequencing of core STR loci for forensic genetic investigations using the Roche Genome Sequencer FLX platform

BioTechniques

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 127-133

  Fordyce, Sarah L ^a   Ávila Arcos, Maria C ^a   Rockenbauer, Eszter ^b   Børsting, Claus ^b   Frank Hansen, Rune ^b   Petersen, Frederik Torp ^b   Willerslev, Eske ^a   Hansen, Anders J ^b   Morling, Niels ^b   Gilbert, Thomas P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

GS FLX; High throughput; Sequencing; Short tandem repeat (STR)

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FORENSIC GENETICS; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; ROCHE GENOME SEQUENCER FLX; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE DATABASE; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT;

ALGORITHMS; ALLELES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA; ELECTROPHORESIS, CAPILLARY; FORENSIC GENETICS; GENETIC VARIATION; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING ASSAYS; HUMANS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 80051566879     PISSN: 07366205     EISSN: 19409818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2144/000113721     Document Type: Article

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