Designed as an accessible introduction to basic scientific principles and their application in
professional practice, Forensic Biology provides a concise overview of the field. Focusing …

We have investigated human male demographic history using 590 males from 51
populations in the Human Genome Diversity Project-Centre d'Étude du Polymorphisme …

The identification of historical military remains by Unrecovered War Casualties—Army (UWC-
A) currently relies on Y-chromosome Short Tandem Repeat (Y-STR) testing when maternal …

This study aims to portray the complex diversity of the Mexican Mestizo population, which
represents 98.8% of the entire population of Mexico. We compiled extended haplotype data …

Abstract Microsatellites, or Short Tandem Repeats (STRs), are subject to frequent length
mutations that involve the loss or gain of an integer number of repeats. This work aimed to …

Abstract The Spanish and Portuguese Speaking Working Group of the International Society
for Forensic Genetics (GHEP-ISFG) organized a collaborative study on mutations of Y …

The rate of microsatellite mutation is dependent upon both the allele length and the repeat
motif, but the exact nature of this relationship is still unknown. We analyzed data on the …

Introducción: Las repeticiones cortas en tándem del cromosoma X (X-STR) son utilizadas en
la identificación forense y pruebas de parentesco biológico. Actualmente existen varios …

Genetic information from World War One Australian soldiers' skeletal remains found in mass
graves overseas is often incomplete, complicating the task of identification. This thesis …

Introduction: The short tandem repeats of the X chromosome (X-STR) are useful in forensic
identification and kinship testing. There are currently several studies on X-STR; however the …