Sex determination can be particularly crucial in forensic casework such as rape cases or
cases of missing persons. Biological traces have to be genetically typed and the …

Although oral-facial clefts (OFC) are common congenital defects, their etiology remains
largely unknown, with relatively few cases associated with rare syndromes or secondary to …

The forensic genetics field is generating extensive population data on polymorphism of short
tandem repeats (STR) markers in globally distributed samples. In this study we explored and …

Nowadays, more and more paternity cases are carried out investigating only child and
putative father, mostly for economical or private reasons. Usually, reliable results can be …

Abstract The West Indies represent an amalgamation of African, European and in some
cases, East Asian sources, but the contributions from each ethnic group remain relatively …

In this study, allele frequencies were determined in a Peruvian population for application to
human identification. A population of 601 unrelated individuals was analyzed (400 …

Abstract Introduction: Short tandem repeats (STRs) have been used for various identity
typing methods worldwide. They have high discrimination power in human identification in …

Objective: Short tandem repeat (STR) analysis using commercial multiplex PCR kits is the
method of choice for kinship testing and trace analysis. However, under certain …

In this report, we have reanalyzed genotyping data in a collection of families from South
America based on maternal origin. Genotyping analysis was performed at the Craniofacial …

Allelic frequencies for 19 STR loci (F13B, TPOX, D3S1358, FGA, CSF1PO, D5S818,
F13A01, D7S820, D8S1179, D10S1237, TH01, VWA, D13S317, FESFPS, Penta E …