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Assessment of DNA degradation and the genotyping success of highly degraded samples.
International journal of legal medicine - 1 May 2011
Hughes-Stamm Sheree R, Ashton Kevin J, van Daal Angela
Abstract excerpt
DNA becomes progressively more fragmented as biological tissue degrades resulting in decreasing ability to gain a complete DNA profile. Successful identification of samples exhibiting very high levels of DNA degradation may be complicated by presenting in minute quantities. The industry standard method for human DNA identification utilising short tandem repeats (STR) may produce partial or no DNA profile with...
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