Article
Automated short tandem repeat (STR) analysis in forensic casework--a strategy for the future.
Electrophoresis - 1 Sept 1995
Gill P, Kimpton C P, Urquhart A, Oldroyd N, Millican E S, Watson S K, Downes T J
Abstract excerpt
Short tandem repeat (STR) loci are routinely analysed for forensic purposes in the UK. Because small regions of DNa are amplified, successful results are more likely to be obtained from highly degraded material where the DNA fragment length may be < 500 bp. The method is superceeding conventional...
Topics
- Alleles
- Automation
- Base Sequence
- Chromosome Mapping
- Data Interpretation, Statistical
- Databases, Factual
- Forecasting
- Forensic Medicine
- Genetics, Population
- Humans
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid
- Reproducibility of Results
- United Kingdom