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Simultaneous determination of seven informative Y chromosome SNPs to differentiate East Asian, European, and African populations.
Legal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) - 1 May 2011
Muro Tomonori, Iida Reiko, Fujihara Junko, Yasuda Toshihiro, Watanabe Yukina, Imamura Shinji, Nakamura Hiroaki, Kimura-Kataoka Kaori, Yuasa Isao, Toga Tomoko, Takeshita Haruo
Abstract excerpt
Identification of the population origin of an individual is very useful for crime investigators who need to narrow down a suspect based on specimens left at a crime scene. Single nucleotide polymorphisms of the Y chromosome (Y-SNPs) are a class of markers of interest to forensic investigators because many of the markers indicate regional specificity, thus providing useful information about the geographic origin...
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