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A highly polymorphic STR locus in Cannabis sativa.
Forensic science international - 9 Jan 2003
Hsieh Hsing-Mei, Hou Rur-Jyun, Tsai Li-Chin, Wei Chih-Sheng, Liu Su-Wen, Huang Li-Hung, Kuo Yi-Chen, Linacre Adrian, Lee James Chun-I
Abstract excerpt
We report on the first short tandem repeat (STR) locus to be isolated from the plant Cannabis sativa. The STR locus, isolated by a hybrid-capture enrichment procedure, was found to contain a simple sequence repeat motif of 6 bp. This 6 bp repeat motif showed no variation in repeat length but with minor variations in repeat unit sequences. The data show the locus to be highly polymorphic with the number of repeat...
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