Autore |
Butler John M (John Marshall), <1969->
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Edizione | [2nd ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa |
London, : Elsevier Academic Press, c2005
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Descrizione fisica |
1 online resource (679 p.)
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Disciplina |
614.1
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Soggetto topico |
DNA fingerprinting
DNA - Physiology
DNA - Synthesis
Forensic genetics
Polymerase chain reaction
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ISBN |
1-280-96125-2
9786610961252
0-08-047061-0
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Formato |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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Nota di contenuto |
Cover; CONTENTS; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; NEW MATERIAL IN THIS SECOND EDITION; AN OVERVIEW OF THE BOOK CHAPTERS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; 1. OVERVIEW AND HISTORY OF DNA TYPING; HISTORY OF FORENSIC DNA ANALYSIS; STEPS IN DNA SAMPLE PROCESSING; COMPARISONS TO COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY; BIOLOGY; 2. DNA BIOLOGY REVIEW; BASIC DNA PRINCIPLES; POPULATION VARIATION; ADDITIONAL READING; 3. SAMPLE COLLECTION, DNA EXTRACTION AND DNA QUANTITATION; SAMPLE COLLECTION; PRESUMPTIVE TESTS FOR BLOOD, SEMEN, AND SALIVA; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA QUANTITATION; REFERENCES AND ADDITIONAL READING
POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION ( PCR) PROCESS4. THE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION (DNA AMPLIFICATION); MULTIPLEX PCR; REAL- TIME ( QUANTITATIVE) PCR; PRECAUTIONS AGAINST CONTAMINATION; ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF PCR WITH FORENSIC SPECIMENS; REFERENCES AND ADDITIONAL READING; REPEATED DNA; 5. COMMONLY USED SHORT TANDEM REPEAT MARKERS AND COMMERCIAL KITS; CHOICE OF MARKERS USED BY THE FORENSIC DNA; TYPING COMMUNITY; COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE STR KITS; DETAILS ON ALLELES PRESENT IN THE 13 CODIS STR LOCI; GENDER IDENTIFICATION WITH AMELOGENIN; STRBASE: A DYNAMIC SOURCE OF INFORMATION ON STR MARKERS
REFERENCES AND ADDITIONAL READINGSTUTTER PRODUCTS; 6. BIOLOGY OF STRs: STUTTER PRODUCTS, NON-TEMPLATE ADDITION, MICROVARIANTS, NULL ALLELES AND MUTATION RATES; NON- TEMPLATE ADDITION; MICROVARIANTS AND 'OFF- LADDER' ALLELES; ALLELE DROPOUT AND NULL ALLELES; MUTATIONS AND MUTATION RATES; REFERENCES AND ADDITIONAL READING; DEGRADED DNA; 7. FORENSIC ISSUES: DEGRADED DNA, PCR INHIBITION, CONTAMINATION, MIXED SAMPLES AND LOW COPY NUMBER; PCR INHIBITION; CONTAMINATION ISSUES; MIXTURES; LOW- COPY NUMBER DNA TESTING; OTHER USES FOR STR TYPING; REFERENCES AND ADDITIONAL READING
ROLE OF ADDITIONAL GENETIC MARKERS IN FORENSIC SCIENCE8. SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISMS AND OTHER BI-ALLELIC MARKERS; BASICS OF SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISMS (SNPs); SNP TYPING ASSAYS AND TECHNOLOGIES; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS FOR SNPs IN HUMAN IDENTITY TESTING; OTHER BI- ALLELIC MARKERS; POINTS FOR DISCUSSION; REFERENCES AND ADDITIONAL READING; 9. Y CHROMOSOME DNA TESTING; LINEAGE MARKERS; VALUE OF Y CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS IN HUMAN IDENTITY TESTING; Y CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; Y- STR MARKERS; ISSUES WITH USE OF Y- STRs IN FORENSIC CASEWORK; Y- SNP AND BI- ALLELIC MARKERS
HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL STUDIES WITH THE Y CHROMOSOMETHE THOMAS JEFFERSON- SALLY HEMINGS AFFAIR; SURNAME TESTING AND GENETIC GENEALOGY; POINTS FOR DISCUSSION; REFERENCES AND ADDITIONAL READING; 10. MITOCHONDRIAL DNA ANALYSIS; CHARACTERISTICS OF MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA SEQUENCING IN FORENSIC CASEWORK; INTERPRETING AND REPORTING mtDNA RESULTS; LABORATORIES PERFORMING mtDNA TESTING IN THE UNITED STATES; ISSUES IMPACTING INTERPRETATION; SCREENING ASSAYS FOR mtDNA TYPING; POPULATION DATABASES; FUTURE DIRECTIONS IN mtDNA RESEARCH; REFERENCES AND ADDITIONAL READING
11. NON-HUMAN DNA TESTING AND MICROBIAL FORENSICS
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