Legal Medicine
Volume 12, Issue 1 , Pages 46-51 , January 2010

Population data for 12 Y-chromosome STR loci in a sample from El Salvador

  • Juan Carlos Monterrosa

      Affiliations

    • Laboratorio de Genética Forense, Corte Suprema de Justicia, San Salvador, El Salvador
    • ,
  • Josefina A. Morales

      Affiliations

    • Laboratorio de Genética Forense, Corte Suprema de Justicia, San Salvador, El Salvador
    • ,
  • Iñaki Yurrebaso

      Affiliations

    • Basque Country Forensic Genetics Laboratory, Larrauri Mendotxe 18, 48950 Erandio, Bizkaia, Spain
    • ,
  • Leonor Gusmão

      Affiliations

    • IPATIMUP, Institute of Molecular Pathology and Immunology of the University of Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, s/n, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal
    • ,
  • Oscar García

      Affiliations

    • Basque Country Forensic Genetics Laboratory, Larrauri Mendotxe 18, 48950 Erandio, Bizkaia, Spain
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +34 94 6079533; fax: +34 94 6079500.

Received 11 June 2009 ,Revised 9 September 2009 ,Accepted 16 October 2009.

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PII: S1344-6223(09)00336-8

doi: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2009.10.003

Legal Medicine
Volume 12, Issue 1 , Pages 46-51 , January 2010

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