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Spatially Explicit Models to Investigate Geographic Patterns in the Distribution of Forensic STRs: Application to the North-Eastern Mediterranean.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2016
Messina Francesco, Finocchio Andrea, Akar Nejat, Loutradis Aphrodite, Michalodimitrakis Emmanuel I, Brdicka Radim, Jodice Carla, Novelletto Andrea
Abstract excerpt
Human forensic STRs used for individual identification have been reported to have little power for inter-population analyses. Several methods have been developed which incorporate information on the spatial distribution of individuals to arrive at a description of the arrangement of diversity. We genotyped at 16 forensic STRs a large population sample obtained from many locations in Italy, Greece and Turkey, i.e....
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