The future of forensic DNA analysis

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 370, Issue 1674, 2015, Pages

  Butler, John M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA; DNA databases; Forensic science; Short tandem repeat

Indexed keywords

DATABASE; DNA; FORENSIC SCIENCE; FUTURE PROSPECT; GENETIC MARKER; GUIDELINE; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; TESTING METHOD;

EUROPE; UNITED STATES;

DNA; GENETIC MARKER;

FORENSIC SCIENCE; GENETIC MARKER; HUMAN; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARDS; TRENDS;

DNA; FORENSIC SCIENCES; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84932086952     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2014.0252     Document Type: Article

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