SNPs as supplements in simple kinship analysis or as core markers in distant pairwise relationship tests: When do SNPs add value or replace well-established and powerful STR tests?

Transfusion Medicine and Hemotherapy

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 202-210

  Phillips, Christopher ^a   García Magariños, Manuel ^b   Salas, Antonio ^a   Carracedo, Ángel ^a   Lareu, Maria Victoria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b PUBLIC UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Deficient pedigrees; High density SNP arrays; Indel; Relationship testing; SNP; STR

Indexed keywords

DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; DNA DEGRADATION; FAMILY STUDY; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

EID: 84861886324     PISSN: 16603796     EISSN: 16603818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000338857     Document Type: Article

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