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Microsatellite scoring errors associated with noninvasive genotyping based on nuclear DNA amplified from shed hair.
Molecular ecology - 1 Sept 1997
Gagneux P, Boesch C, Woodruff D S
Abstract excerpt
In the context of a study of wild chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes verus, we found that genotypes based on single PCR amplifications of microsatellite loci from single shed hair have a high error rate. We quantified error rates using the comparable results of 791 single shed hair PCR amplifications of 11 microsatellite loci of 18 known individuals. The most frequent error was the amplification of only one of the two...
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