Legal Medicine
Volume 12, Issue 4 , Pages 212-214 , July 2010

Alu insertion polymorphisms at 11 loci in a Piedmont (Northern Italy) sample

Received 9 November 2009 ,Revised 26 January 2010 ,Accepted 23 March 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2010.03.006

Legal Medicine
Volume 12, Issue 4 , Pages 212-214 , July 2010

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