Legal Medicine
Volume 11, Issue 6 , Pages 308-311 , November 2009

Allele frequency distribution for 15 autosomal STR loci in Afridi Pathan population of Uttar Pradesh, India

Received 24 June 2009 ,Revised 10 August 2009 ,Accepted 13 August 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2009.08.002

Legal Medicine
Volume 11, Issue 6 , Pages 308-311 , November 2009