Microsatellites in Portuguese autochthonous horse breeds: usefulness for parentage testing

The use of DNA technology for parentage testing is increasing every day. Most laboratories have improved their exclusion probabilities (PE) by the addition of DNA microsatellite loci to standard blood-typing results. The efficacy of each locus depends on the number of alleles detected and their freq...

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Main Authors: C. Luís, E.Gus Cothran, M.M. Oom
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Genética 2002-01-01
Series:Genetics and Molecular Biology
Subjects:
DNA
Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47572002000200003