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Analysis of seventeen Y-chromosome STR loci in the Cape Muslim population of South Africa

Received 18 February 2009 ,Revised 7 October 2009 ,Accepted 8 October 2009.

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Legal Medicine
Volume 12, Issue 1 , Pages 42-45 , January 2010