International journal of legal medicine
Sequence homology between sex chromosomes leads to apparent heterozygosity at the DYS572 locus in massively parallel sequencing.
Zhiyong Liu, Lan Hu, Hui Sun, Xiaoyu Lu, Ran Li, Xiaoyan Ma, Bo Lei, Hongyu Sun, Chao Liu
Published: 202510.1007/s00414-025-03643-7
Abstract
In forensic genetics, Y-chromosomal short tandem repeats (Y-STRs) are widely used in male lineage tracing, kinship analysis, and mixture interpretation. Conventional genotyping of Y-STRs relies on length-based detection via capillary electrophoresis…
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