Legal Medicine
Volume 12, Issue 3 , Pages 137-143 , May 2010

Interpreting Y chromosome STR haplotype mixture

  • Jianye Ge

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Investigative Genetics, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, TX 76107, USA
    • Department of Forensic and Investigative Genetics, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Ft Worth, TX 76107, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 817 735 2773; fax: +1 817 735 5016.
    • ,
  • Bruce Budowle

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Investigative Genetics, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, TX 76107, USA
    • Department of Forensic and Investigative Genetics, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Ft Worth, TX 76107, USA
    • ,
  • Ranajit Chakraborty

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Investigative Genetics, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, TX 76107, USA
    • Department of Forensic and Investigative Genetics, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Ft Worth, TX 76107, USA
    • Center for Genome Information, Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, 45267, USA

Received 4 September 2009 ,Revised 9 November 2009 ,Accepted 3 February 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2010.02.003

Legal Medicine
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