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DNA typing in cases of blood chimerism.
International journal of legal medicine - 1 Jan 1999
Milde A, Kühl-Burmeister R, Ritz-Timme S, Kaatsch H J
Abstract excerpt
A chimera is an organism whose cells derive from two or more distinct zygote lineages. and therefore two different blood cell populations circulate in one individual. To point out the potential pitfalls in forensic analysis, a set of triplets (a girl and two boys) who revealed blood chimerism was investigated with four STR systems using PCR. The results indicated that a DNA profile based on DNA extracted from...
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