Haplotypic Blocks of X-linked STRs for Forensic Cases: Study of Recombination and Mutation Rates

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 192-195

  Castañeda, María ^a   Mijares, Verónica ^a   Riancho, José A ^a   Zarrabeitia, María T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

DNA typing; Forensic science; Haplotypes; Kinship; Mutation; Recombination; Short tandem repeat; X chromosome

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA; PRIMER DNA;

ARTICLE; CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS; CAUCASIAN; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC LINKAGE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MALE; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPAIN; X CHROMOSOME;

CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA PRIMERS; ELECTROPHORESIS, CAPILLARY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC LOCI; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPAIN;

EID: 84855344749     PISSN: 00221198     EISSN: 15564029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1556-4029.2011.01916.x     Document Type: Article

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