Germline mutations of STR-alleles include multi-step mutations as defined by sequencing of repeat and flanking regions

Forensic Science International: Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 381-386

  Dauber, Eva Maria ^a   Kratzer, Adelgunde ^b   Neuhuber, Franz ^c   Parson, Walther ^d   Klintschar, Michael ^e,f   Bär, Walter ^b   Mayr, Wolfgang R ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^d INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^e MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^f HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Exclusion of paternity; Genetic inconsistency; Germline mutation; Mutation rate; Mutational step; Paternity testing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; CHILD; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATERNITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; SWITZERLAND;

ALLELES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GENOTYPE; GERM-LINE MUTATION; HUMANS; MEIOSIS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PATERNITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES;

EID: 84858449299     PISSN: 18724973     EISSN: 18780326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2011.07.015     Document Type: Article

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