Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine
Volume 14, Issue 5 , Pages 261-265 , July 2007

A grey zone approach for evaluation of 15 short tandem repeat loci in sibship analysis: A pilot study in Indian subjects

  • Rajiv I. Giroti, MSc

      Affiliations

    • Central Forensic Science Laboratory, Plot No. 2, Dakshin Marg, Sector 36-A, Chandigarh 160 036, India
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +91 172 2621441; fax: +91 172 2605923.
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  • Sunita Verma, MSc

      Affiliations

    • Central Forensic Science Laboratory, Plot No. 2, Dakshin Marg, Sector 36-A, Chandigarh 160 036, India
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  • Kulwant Singh, MSc

      Affiliations

    • Central Forensic Science Laboratory, Plot No. 2, Dakshin Marg, Sector 36-A, Chandigarh 160 036, India
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  • Rohit Malik, MSc

      Affiliations

    • Central Forensic Science Laboratory, Plot No. 2, Dakshin Marg, Sector 36-A, Chandigarh 160 036, India
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  • Indu Talwar, PhD ((Professor and Chair))

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anthropology, Panjab University, Chandigarh 160 014, India

Received 8 May 2006 ,Revised 8 August 2006 ,Accepted 10 August 2006.

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PII: S1353-1131(06)00186-6

doi: 10.1016/j.jcfm.2006.08.002

Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine
Volume 14, Issue 5 , Pages 261-265 , July 2007

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