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Combining results of forensic STR kits: HDplex validation including allelic association and linkage testing with NGM and Identifiler loci.
International journal of legal medicine - 1 Sept 2012
Westen Antoinette A, Haned Hinda, Grol Laurens J W, Harteveld Joyce, van der Gaag Kristiaan J, de Knijff Peter, Sijen Titia
Abstract excerpt
The autosomal short tandem repeat (STR) kits that are currently used in forensic science have a high discrimination power. However, this discrimination power is sometimes not sufficient for complex kinship analyses or decreases when alleles are missing due to degradation of the DNA. The Investigator HDplex kit contains nine STRs that are additional to the commonly used forensic markers, and we validated this kit...
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