Forensic data and microvariant sequence characterization of 27 Y-STR loci analyzed in four Eastern African countries

Forensic Science International: Genetics

Volumn 27, Issue , 2017, Pages 123-131

  Iacovacci, Giuseppe ^a   D'Atanasio, Eugenia ^b   Marini, Ornella ^b   Coppa, Alfredo ^c   Sellitto, Daniele ^d   Trombetta, Beniamino ^b   Berti, Andrea ^a   Cruciani, Fulvio ^b,d  

^a Health Center   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Eastern African populations; Rapidly mutating Y STR; Y STR; Yfiler Plus

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CELL LINE; DJIBOUTI; EAST AFRICAN; ERITREA; ETHIOPIA; ETHNIC GROUP; FORENSIC GENETICS; GENE CONVERSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOGROUP; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KENYA; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; Y CHROMOSOME HAPLOGROUP; AFRICA; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; MUTATION; POPULATION GENETICS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; Y CHROMOSOME;

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

AFRICA, EASTERN; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ETHNIC GROUPS; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 85008474261     PISSN: 18724973     EISSN: 18780326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2016.12.015     Document Type: Article

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