Use of alternative primers for gender discrimination in human forensic genotyping /
Doris M. Kupfer ... [et al.].

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Kupfer, Doris M.
Civil Aerospace Medical Institute.
United States. Office of Aerospace Medicine.

Language(s)

English

Published

Washington, D.C. : Federal Aviation Administration, Office of Aerospace Medicine ; 2008.

Subjects

Aviation medicine > Aviation medicine / United States.
Sex discrimination.
Forensic genetics > Forensic genetics / United States.

Summary

"An assay using the Federal Bureau of Investigation's human Combined DNA Identity System (CODIS) primers has been developed for polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based human identity testing. Recent forensic literature has identified several human populations that carry a deletion mutation in the Y-chromosome copy of the amelogenin locus. This is the standard locus used for gender determination in CODIS. Additionally, the amelogenin male PCR products are very close in size requiring manual annotation of PCR electrophoresis results for this locus. This study was designed to test several gender-specific primers which are to loci outside the amelogenin region, have well-separated PCR products, and could serve as additions or replacements to amelogenin in our human identity testing assay."--P. i.

Note

"DOT/FAA/AM-08/8."
"April 2008."
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v, 5 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

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