title: Report of the European DNA profiling group (EDNAP): an investigation of the complex STR loci D21S11 and HUMFIBRA (FGA).
abstract: This paper describes a collaborative exercise which was intended to demonstrate whether uniformity of DNA profiling results could be achieved between European laboratories using two complex short tandem repeat (STR) loci. The loci D21S11 and HUMFIBRA (FGA) were chosen because they are commonly used by different European laboratories. D21S11 has approximately 14 common alleles (f > 0.001), whereas HUMFIBRA has 19 common alleles. Laboratories were asked to test seven blood stains, one of which was a known control, and to report the results to the coordinating laboratory. The exercise demonstrated that complex STRs were amenable to standardisation.
authors.affiliation: Service Development, Forensic Science Service, Birmingham, UK.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Gill
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: d'Aloja
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Andersen
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Dupuy
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Jangblad
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Johnsson
authors.forename: A D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Kloosterman
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kratzer
authors.forename: M V
authors.initials: MV
authors.lastname: Lareu
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Meldegaard
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Phillips
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Pfitzinger
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rand
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sabatier
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Scheithauer
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Schmitter
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Schneider
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Vide
mesh_terms: D000483:Alleles; D004247:DNA; D017931:DNA Primers; D005060:Europe; D006801:Humans; D007753:Laboratories / Q000592:standards*; D012091:Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid; D015203:Reproducibility of Results
chemical_list: D017931:DNA Primers; D004247:DNA