Forensic Science International
Volume 116, Issue 1 , Pages 55-58 , 1 February 2001

Sequence analysis and population data on the ‘new’ short tandem repeat locus D5S2360

  • Lotte Henke

      Affiliations

    • Institut für Blutgruppenforschung, Hohenzollernring 57, 50672 Koeln, Germany
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  • Rolf Fimmers

      Affiliations

    • Institut für Medizinische Biometrie, Informatik und Epidemiologie der Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn, Germany
    • ,
  • Jürgen Reinhold

      Affiliations

    • Labor Dr. Arnold, Wuerzburg, Germany
    • ,
  • Marlies Dülmer

      Affiliations

    • Institut für Blutgruppenforschung, Hohenzollernring 57, 50672 Koeln, Germany
    • ,
  • Sabine Cleef

      Affiliations

    • Institut für Blutgruppenforschung, Hohenzollernring 57, 50672 Koeln, Germany
    • ,
  • Johann Arnold

      Affiliations

    • Labor Dr. Arnold, Wuerzburg, Germany
    • ,
  • Jürgen Henke

      Affiliations

    • Institut für Blutgruppenforschung, Hohenzollernring 57, 50672 Koeln, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +49-221-253037; fax: +49-221-251247

Received 24 January 2000 ,Revised 18 July 2000 ,Accepted 20 July 2000.

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☆ Preliminary results were presented at the 18th ISFH congress, San Francisco, CA, USA, 17–21 August 1999.

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Forensic Science International
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