Sub-population structure evident in forensic Y-STR profiles from Armenian geographical groups

Legal Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 85-90

  Lowery, Robert K ^a,b   Herrera, Kristian ^a,b   Uribe, Gabriel ^c   Reguiero, Maria ^a   Herrera, Rene J ^a,b  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TERRA Environmental Research Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Phylogenetics; Short tandem repeats; Y chromosome; Y STR

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARMENIA; ARTICLE; DNA EXTRACTION; FORENSIC GENETICS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAPLOTYPE; HISTORY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; Y CHROMOSOME;

ARMENIA; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 84873570644     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: 18734162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2012.10.003     Document Type: Article

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