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Positive identification is the ultimate objective of forensic analysis of blood and other tissue specimens. Nucleotide probes can be very effective tools for detecting genetic markers in this identification process. The genetic markers should be highly polymorphic; allelic variants should be easily andreadily detectable; if amplification is required, the alleles should be efficiently amplified using PCR technology; and a statistically sound estimate of the population allele and genotype frequencies should be available.
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Kirby, L.T. (1990). Probes, Allele Mutations, and Restriction Enzymes. In: DNA Fingerprinting. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12040-6_7
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