ReviewFrontiers in genetics2020
Forensic Autosomal Short Tandem Repeats and Their Potential Association With Phenotype.
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- A Biomedical Researcher's Guide for Analyzing Short Tandem Repeat (STR) Genotypes of Human Cell Lines and in Vitro Tissue Samples Using Three Standard Authentication Algorithms.Current protocols · 2026Article
- Beyond the Core: The Role of Supplementary Short Tandem Repeats in Forensic Genetics.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- Driven by Dopamine: Genetic Insights into Motivation and Performance in Sports and Esports.Genes · 2026Review
- The repertoire of short tandem repeats across the tree of life.Genome biology · 2025Article
- Legitimacy of investigative forensic genetic genealogy under Art. 8 ECHR.Forensic science international. Synergy · 2025Article
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- A genome-wide approach for the discovery of novel repeat expansion disorders in the Undiagnosed Diseases Network cohort.Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics · 2025Article
- Pytrf: a python package for finding tandem repeats from genomic sequences.BMC bioinformatics · 2025Article
- Implementation of NGS and SNP microarrays in routine forensic practice: opportunities and barriers.BMC genomics · 2025Review
- Repeat expansion disorders.Practical neurology · 2025Review
- STR profiling in a cohort of Saudi patients with acute leukemia.Journal of Taibah University Medical Sciences · 2025Article
- Short tandem repeat variants are possibly associated with RNA secondary structure and gene expression.PloS one · 2025Article
- Microsatellites explorer: A database of short tandem repeats across genomes.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2024Article
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- Sequencing and characterizing short tandem repeats in the human genome.Nature reviews. Genetics · 2024Review
- Short tandem repeats - how microsatellites became the currency of forensic genetics.Nature reviews. Genetics · 2024Article
- Assessing Privacy Vulnerabilities in Genetic Data Sets: Scoping Review.JMIR bioinformatics and biotechnology · 2024Article
- Solving the Arizona search problem by imputation.iScience · 2024Article
- RExPRT: a machine learning tool to predict pathogenicity of tandem repeat loci.Genome biology · 2024Article
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3 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Forensic DNA profiling utilizes autosomal short tandem repeat (STR) markers to establish identity of missing persons, confirm familial relations, and link persons of interest to crime scenes. It is a widely accepted notion that genetic markers used in forensic applications are not predictive of phenotype. At present, there has been no demonstration of forensic STR variants directly causing or predicting disease. Such a demonstration would have many legal and ethical implications. For example, is there a duty to inform a DNA donor if a medical condition is discovered during routine analysis of their sample? In this review, we evaluate the possibility that forensic STRs could provide information beyond mere identity. An extensive search of the literature returned 107 articles associating a forensic STR with a trait. A total of 57 of these studies met our inclusion criteria: a reported link between a STR-inclusive gene and a phenotype and a statistical analysis reporting a
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