An unusual occurrence of repeated single allele variation on Y-STR locus DYS458

Six brothers were accused of gagging and raping a woman. A single male Y-STR profile was obtained from vaginal smear swab and clothes of the victim, which did not match with the DNA profile of the accused brothers. As a reference point, the blood sample of their father (aged 87 years) was also analy...

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Main Authors: Pankaj Shrivastava, Veena Ben Trivedi, Toshi Jain, Mehmood Ali
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2016-09-01
Series:Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2090536X1500043X