Brother-brother or father-son? How a dropout of AmelX may facilitate the elucidation of a familial relationship

Int J Legal Med. 2020 Jul;134(4):1305-1310. doi: 10.1007/s00414-019-02084-3. Epub 2019 Jun 6.

Authors

Barbara Karolina Zajac¹, Stefanie Scheiper², Richard Zehner², Tina Jenewein³, Melanie Weissenberger³

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Forensic Medicine and Traffic Medicine, Department for Forensic Genetics, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany. barbarakarolina.zajac@med.uni-heidelberg.de.
² Institute of Legal Medicine, Department for Forensic Biology, University Hospital Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany.
³ Institute of Forensic Medicine and Traffic Medicine, Department for Forensic Genetics, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.

PMID: 31172272
DOI: 10.1007/s00414-019-02084-3

No abstract available

MeSH terms

Alleles*
Amelogenin / genetics*
DNA / isolation & purification*
DNA Primers
Fathers
Forensic Genetics*
Humans
Male
Microsatellite Repeats
Pakistan / ethnology
Sequence Analysis, DNA
Siblings

Substances

AMELX protein, human
Amelogenin
DNA Primers
DNA