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. 2019 Nov:43:102165.
doi: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2019.102165. Epub 2019 Sep 21.

Report from the STRAND Working Group on the 2019 STR sequence nomenclature meeting

Katherine Butler Gettings  1 , David Ballard  2 , Martin Bodner  3 , Lisa A Borsuk  4 , Jonathan L King  5 , Walther Parson  6 , Christopher Phillips  7
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Report from the STRAND Working Group on the 2019 STR sequence nomenclature meeting

Katherine Butler Gettings et al. Forensic Sci Int Genet. 2019 Nov.

Abstract

This report summarizes topics discussed at the STR sequence nomenclature meeting hosted by the STRAND Working Group in April 2019. Invited attendees for this meeting included researchers known-to-us to be developing STR sequence-based nomenclature schemata, scientific representatives from vendors developing STR sequence bioinformatic methods, DNA intelligence database curators, and academic experts in STR genomics. The goal of this meeting was to provide a forum for individuals developing nomenclature schemata to present and discuss their ideas, encouraging mutual awareness, identification of differences in approaches, opposing aspects, and opportunities for parallelization while some approaches are still under development.

Keywords: Bioinformatics; Nomenclature; STR; Sequence.

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Fig. 1.
Fig. 1.
Example of automated bracketing results for a collection of alleles a the D13S317 locus.
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Fig. 2.
Four possible range definitions applied to the D13S317 locus. Flanking region polymorphisms > 1% frequency are shown, associated rs numbers are (left to right) rs73250432, rs9546005, rs202043589, rs561167308.
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