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Forensic Laboratory Management
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Forensic Laboratory Management

by W. Mark Dale, Wendy S. Becker
September 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
363 pages
12h 3m
English
CRC Press
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224 Forensic Laboratory Management: Applying Business Principles
e microsatellites we use in forensics are part of a small portion of our
genome known as Simple Sequence Repeats, which represent approximately
3% of the human genome. We are interested in tandem, simple sequence
repeats, meaning they occur in clusters and are connected together in a head-
to-tail orientation.
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If we are going to identify people, and do so by nding dierences between
people, we will have to look at those parts of the DNA that dier from one
person to another. And those areas are called polymorphic DNA, as opposed
to monomorphic. 99.9% of our genome is the same among all people. If we
took just a random sequence of DNA and compared that sequence from on ...
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ISBN: 9781466556713