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Kit-dependent discrepancy in D16S539 and general considerations for database matches.
Forensic science international. Genetics - 1 May 2018
Zajac Barbara Karolina, Zehner Richard, Scheiper Stefanie, Weissenberger Melanie
Abstract excerpt
Throughout the last decade more companies have been offering multiplex PCR kits for forensic STR typing. As a consequence, it has been demonstrated, that an observed genotype may unexpectedly vary at a single locus when different STR kits have been used. Analysing STR profiles which have to be entered in a national database, unknown or undetected primer binding site mutations, insertions or deletions within the...
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