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Y-haplotype screening of local patrilineages followed by autosomal STR typing can detect likely perpetrators in some populations.
Journal of forensic sciences - 1 Sept 2011
Huang Daixin, Shi Shaoxing, Zhu Chuanhong, Yi Shaohua, Ma Wei, Wang Haisheng, Li Huamin
Abstract excerpt
The male-specific, human Y-chromosomal short tandem repeats (Y-STRs) are very useful in forensic analysis and human evolution studies. The authors report two sexual crime cases in which the perpetrators were successfully traced using Y-haplotype screening of local patrilineages followed by autosomal STR typing. First, several main local patrilineages from local cases were investigated using Y-STR haplotyping,...
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