Response to Grisedale and Van Daal: Comparison of STR profiling from low template DNA extracts with and without the consensus profiling method

Investigative Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Kokshoorn, Bas ^a   Blankers, Bart J ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS FORENSIC INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA TEMPLATE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE REPLICATION; HUMAN; LETTER; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT;

EID: 84872396323     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20412223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2041-2223-4-1     Document Type: Letter

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