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Exploring the efficacy of paternity and kinship testing based on single nucleotide polymorphisms.
Forensic science international. Genetics - 1 May 2016
Mo Shao-Kang, Liu Ya-Cheng, Wang Sheng-Qi, Bo Xiao-Chen, Li Zhen, Chen Ying, Ni Ming
Abstract excerpt
Short tandem repeats (STRs) are conventional genetic markers typically used for paternity and kinship testing. As supplementary markers of STRs, single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) have less discrimination power but broader applicability to degraded samples. The rapid improvement of next-generation sequencing (NGS) and multiplex amplification technologies also make it possible now to simultaneously identify...
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