Performance Evaluation and Optimization of Multiplex PCRs for the Highly Discriminating OSU 10-Locus Set Y-STRs

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 52-59

  Hanson, Erin ^a,b   Maybruck, Julie L ^c   Ballantyne, Jack ^a,b   Fuerst, Paul A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b National Center for Forensic Science   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

DYS448; DYS487; DYS488; DYS504; DYS576; DYS657; DYS685; DYS688; DYS703; DYS707; Forensic science; Microsatellites; Short tandem repeats; Y chromosome

Indexed keywords

DNA; FLUORESCENT DYE; MICROSATELLITE DNA; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ELECTROPHORESIS; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALIVA; SPERM; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; BLOOD; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; DNA; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA PRIMERS; ELECTROPHORESIS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT DYES; GENETIC LOCI; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALIVA; SEMEN;

EID: 84855351124     PISSN: 00221198     EISSN: 15564029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1556-4029.2011.01910.x     Document Type: Article

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