Age estimation via quantification of signal-joint T cell receptor excision circles in Koreans

Legal Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 135-138

  Cho, Sohee ^a   Ge, Jianye ^b   Seo, Seung Bum ^b   Kim, Kiha ^a   Lee, Hye Young ^a   Lee, Soong Deok ^a  

^a Seoul National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Age estimation; Blood; Korean; SjTREC

Indexed keywords

T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR EXCISION CIRCLE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; TAQ POLYMERASE;

AGAR GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; AGE DETERMINATION; AMPLICON; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; DNA EXTRACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BLOOD; ETHNOLOGY; FORENSIC GENETICS; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETICS; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOUTH KOREA; VALIDATION STUDY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FORENSIC GENETICS; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; TAQ POLYMERASE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84897982013     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: 18734162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2014.01.009     Document Type: Article

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