Minisatellite repeat coding as a digital approach to DNA typing.

doi:10.1038/354204a0

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Minisatellite repeat coding as a digital approach to DNA typing.

Nature - 21 Nov 1991

Jeffreys A J, MacLeod A, Tamaki K, Neil D L, Monckton D G

Abstract excerpt

Most DNA typing systems used in forensic and legal medicine assay allelic length variation at tandem repetitive DNA regions such as minisatellites. A simple alternative approach that displays patterns of variant repeat units along minisatellite alleles is described here. This produces DNA profile...

Topics

Base Sequence
Chromosome Mapping
DNA Fingerprinting
DNA Probes
DNA, Satellite
Female
Genetic Variation
Haplotypes
Heterozygote
Humans
Male
Molecular Sequence Data
Mutation
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid
Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid

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