DNA Fingerprinting: State of the Science

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Brief introduction to human DNA fingerprinting....Pages 1-20
Notes on the definition and nomenclature of tandemly repetitive DNA sequences....Pages 21-28
On the essence of “meaningless” simple repetitive DNA in eukaryote genomes....Pages 29-45
Detection, cloning, and distribution of minisatellites in some mammalian genomes....Pages 47-57
Frequency of restriction site polymorphisms in the region surrounding VNTR loci....Pages 59-62
Human VNTR mutation and sex....Pages 63-69
Variation of minisatellites in chemically induced mutagenesis and in gene amplification....Pages 71-77
Iterons of stringently controlled plasmids and DNA fingerprinting....Pages 79-85
Towards covering immunological genes with highly informative markers: A trans-species approach....Pages 87-102
Arbitrary primed PCR fingerprinting of RNA applied to mapping differentially expressed genes....Pages 103-115
Rapid analysis of PCR components and products by acidic non-gel capillary electrophoresis....Pages 117-124
Front Matter....Pages 124-124
Minisatellite variant repeat mapping: Application to DNA typing and mutation analysis....Pages 125-139
Microsatellites and disease: A new paradigm....Pages 141-152
A unified approach to study hypervariable polymorphisms: Statistical considerations of determining relatedness and population distances....Pages 153-175
The forensic significance of various reference population databases for estimating the rarity of variable number of tandem repeat (VNTR) loci profiles....Pages 177-191
Population genetics of 14 ethnic groups using phenotypic data from VNTR loci....Pages 193-210
Genetic variation among the Mapuche Indians from the Patagonian region of Argentina: Mitochondrial DNA sequence variation and allele frequencies of several nuclear genes....Pages 211-219
Microsatellite and HLA class II oligonucleotide typing in a population of Yanomami Indians....Pages 221-230
Isérables: A Bedouin village in Switzerland?....Pages 231-235
Paternity testing with the F10 multilocus DNA fingerprinting probe....Pages 237-247
Front Matter....Pages 124-124
The formal analysis of multilocus DNA fingerprints....Pages 249-255
Oligonucleotide DNA fingerprinting: Results of a multi-center study on reliability and validity....Pages 257-260
Testing deficiency paternity cases with a Y-linked tetranucleotide repeat polymorphism....Pages 261-265
Short tandem repeat loci: Application to forensic and human remains identification....Pages 267-274
Forensic DNA typing by the solid-phase minisequencing method....Pages 275-282
The use of polymorphic Alu insertions in human DNA fingerprinting....Pages 283-291
Front Matter....Pages 293-293
Applications of DNA fingerprinting in plant population studies....Pages 293-309
DNA- and PCR-fingerprinting in fungi....Pages 311-320
DNA fingerprinting reveals relationships between strains of Trypanosoma rangeli and Trypanosoma cruzi ....Pages 321-329
The use of RAPDs for the analysis of parasites....Pages 331-337
The use of RAPDs for the study of the genetic diversity of Schistosoma mansoni and Trypanosoma cruzi ....Pages 339-345
Variability and intra nest genetic relationships in Hymenoptera: DNA fingerprinting applied to the solitary bee Megachille rotundata ....Pages 347-354
Sperm utilization in honeybees as detected by M13 DNA fingerprints....Pages 355-362
High mating success of low rank males in Limia perugiae (Pisces: Poeciliidae) as determined by DNA fingerprinting....Pages 363-370
Quantitative traits in chicken associated with DNA fingerprint bands....Pages 371-377
Influence of extra-pair paternity on parental care in great tits ( Parus major )....Pages 379-385
Paternity testing of endangered species of birds by DNA fingerprinting with non-radioactive labelled oligonucleotide probes....Pages 387-393
Characterization and applications of multilocus DNA fingerprints in Brazilian endangered macaws....Pages 395-401
DNA fingerprinting of trait-selected mouse lines and linkage analysis in reference families....Pages 403-410
Dog genetic polymorphism revealed by synthetic tandem repeats....Pages 411-414
Front Matter....Pages 293-293
Characterization of canine microsatellites....Pages 415-420
Application of human minisatellite probes to the development of informative DNA fingerprints and the isolation of locus-specific markers in animals....Pages 421-428
The individualization’ of large North American mammals....Pages 429-436
Bovine microsatellites: Racial differences and association with SINE-elements....Pages 437-443
Oligonucleotide fingerprinting of free-ranging and captive rhesus macaques from CayoSantiago: Paternity assignment and comparison of heterozygosity....Pages 445-451
Use of highly repeated DNA polymorphisms for genome diagnosis and evolutionary studies in the genus Beta ....Pages 453-459
Back Matter....Pages 461-468