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Study Of Insertion-Deletion Polymorphisms (Indels) In The Uae Population, Maryam M. Matar Almheiri

Biology Theses

Insertion-deletion polymorphisms (indels) have been used less in forensic identification of individuals in comparison to short tandem repeat (STR) and single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) systems. The use of indels has many advantages including low costs, simple typing methods as well as a small amplicon size of under 160 bp making them suitable for genotyping highly degraded DNA. They can also be valuable as a complementary tool to help resolve kinship cases, with the advantage of lower mutation rates when compared to STRs.

The main objective of this study was to investigate the polymorphism of 30 indel loci in the UAE …