Legal Medicine
Volume 12, Issue 6 , Pages 289-295 , November 2010

US forensic Y-chromosome short tandem repeats database

  • Jianye Ge

      Affiliations

    • Department of Forensic and Investigative Genetics, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Ft Worth, TX 76107, USA
    • Institute of Investigative Genetics, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Ft Worth, TX 76107, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Department of Forensic and Investigative Genetics, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Ft Worth, TX 76107, USA.
    • ,
  • Bruce Budowle

      Affiliations

    • Department of Forensic and Investigative Genetics, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Ft Worth, TX 76107, USA
    • Institute of Investigative Genetics, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Ft Worth, TX 76107, USA
    • ,
  • John V. Planz

      Affiliations

    • Department of Forensic and Investigative Genetics, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Ft Worth, TX 76107, USA
    • Institute of Investigative Genetics, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Ft Worth, TX 76107, USA
    • ,
  • Arthur J. Eisenberg

      Affiliations

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

      Affiliations

    • National Center for Forensic Science, P.O. Box 162367, Orlando, FL 32816-2367, USA
    • ,
  • Ranajit Chakraborty

      Affiliations

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

Received 19 May 2010 ,Revised 26 July 2010 ,Accepted 29 July 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2010.07.006

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