Forensic Science International: Genetics
Volume 5, Issue 4 , Pages 358-360 , August 2011

A comment on “The hare and the tortoise: One small step for four SNPs, one giant leap for SNP-kind”

  • António Amorim

      Affiliations

    • IPATIMUP, Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular da Universidade do Porto, Portugal
    • Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence address: IPATIMUP, R. Dr. Roberto Frias s/n, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal. Tel.: +351 225570700; fax: +351 225570799.

Received 22 January 2010 ,Revised 2 March 2010 ,Accepted 14 April 2010.

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PII: S1872-4973(10)00076-1

doi: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2010.04.002

Forensic Science International: Genetics
Volume 5, Issue 4 , Pages 358-360 , August 2011

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