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Multiple methods used for type detection of uniparental disomy in paternity testing.
International journal of legal medicine - 1 May 2020
Su Hongliang, Sun Tingting, Chen Man, Liu Jinding, Wang Xiao, Chen Yaming, Ren Wenyan, Zhang Gengqian, Yan Jiangwei, Yun Keming
Abstract excerpt
Uniparental disomy (UPD) has attracted more attention recently in paternity testing, though it is an infrequent genetic event. Although short tandem repeat (STR) profiling has been widely used in paternity testing, it is not sufficient to use STR only to judge the genetic relationship, because the existence of UPD will inevitably affect the results of genotyping. Compared with complete UPD, segmental UPD is more...
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