Article
Forensic STRs as potential disease markers: a study of VWA and von Willebrand's Disease.
Forensic science international. Genetics - 1 Dec 2007
Laird Rebecca, Schneider Peter M, Gaudieri Silvana
Abstract excerpt
In recent years it has been established that non-coding variants may be in linkage disequilibrium (LD) with coding variants up to several thousand base pairs away forming haplotype blocks. These non-coding markers may be haplotype specific and, therefore, informative regarding the surrounding coding sequence. In this study, we chose to study the VWA short tandem repeat (STR) as it is targeted in all major...
Topics
- Alleles
- DNA Fingerprinting
- Female
- Forensic Genetics
- Gene Frequency
- Genetic Markers
- Haplotypes
- Humans
- Linkage Disequilibrium
- Male
- Microsatellite Repeats
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
