Pros and cons in the use of SNPs in forensic kinship investigation: a comparative analysis with STRs.

doi:10.1016/j.forsciint.2004.06.018

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Pros and cons in the use of SNPs in forensic kinship investigation: a comparative analysis with STRs.

Forensic science international - 28 May 2005

Amorim António, Pereira Luísa

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Recent advances in single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) research have raised the possibility that these markers could replace the forensically established short tandem repeats (STRs). In this work, we compare STRs and SNPs applicability for kinship investigation in terms of expected informative content and probability of occurrence of "difficult cases" (when isolated Mendelian incompatibilities between alleged...

Topics

Adult
Child
Data Interpretation, Statistical
Female
Humans
Male
Microsatellite Repeats
Models, Genetic
Mutation
Paternity
Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide

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PMID: 15837005
DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2004.06.018

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