A new future of forensic Y-chromosome analysis: Rapidly mutating Y-STRs for differentiating male relatives and paternal lineages

Forensic Science International: Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 208-218

  Ballantyne, Kaye N ^a,d   Keerl, Victoria ^a,e   Wollstein, Andreas ^a,b   Choi, Ying ^a   Zuniga, Sofia B ^c   Ralf, Arwin ^a   Vermeulen, Mark ^a   De Knijff, Peter ^c   Kayser, Manfred ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d Victoria Police   (Australia)

^e JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Haplotype resolution; Lineage differentiation; Rapidly mutating Y STRs (RM Y STRs); Relative differentiation; Y chromosome; Y STRs

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOGEOGRAPHIC REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FATHER; FORENSIC GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUTATION RATE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATERNALISM; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELATIVE; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; SON; Y CHROMOSOME;

ALLELES; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, GENETIC; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; MUTATION; PEDIGREE;

EID: 84857039506     PISSN: 18724973     EISSN: 18780326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2011.04.017     Document Type: Article

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