Technical progress in parentage analysis.

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Technical progress in parentage analysis.

Clinics in laboratory medicine - 1 Sept 1992

Wenk R E, Chiafari F A, Brooks M A, Houtz T D

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At the turn of the 20th century, Mendel's laws were found to be applicable to human blood groups. Within two decades, blood group genetics were applied to problems of parentage. Expansion of immunohematology into leukocyte antigen identification produced the single most informative, expressed pol...

Topics

Blood Group Antigens
DNA
Genetic Variation
Histocompatibility Antigens Class I
Humans
Parents
Paternity
Polymorphism, Genetic
Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length
Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid

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