DNA Fingerprinting: Approaches and Applications

Abstract

Molecular Genetics of Hypervariable DNA.- Principles and recent advances in human DNA fingerprinting.- Generation of variability at VNTR loci in human DNA.- Human VNTR sequences in porcine HTF-islands.- Oligonucleotide fingerprinting using simple repeat motifs: a convenient, ubiquitously applicable method to detect hypervariability for multiple purposes.- DNA fingerprinting of the human intestinal parasite Giardia intestinalis with hypervariable minisatellite sequences.- Human variable number of tandem repeat probes as a source of polymorphic markers in experimental animals.- DNA Fingerprinting: the utilization of minisatellite probes to detect a somatic mutation in the Proteus syndrome.- Genetic variability of satellite sequence in the dipteran Musca domestica.- Population Genetics and Evolutionary Biology.- Analysis of population genetic structure by DNA fingerprinting.- Population genetics of hypervariable loci: analysis of PCR based VNTR polymorphism within a population.- Population genetic data determined for five different single locus minisatellite probes.- Multilocus and single locus minisatellite analysis in population biological studies.- Helpers-at-the-nest in European Bee-eaters (Merops apiaster): a genetic analysis.- Cloning, characterization and evolution of Indian peafowl Pavo christatus minisatellite loci.- Use of sex-linked minisatellite fragments to investigate genetic differentiation and migration of North American populations of the peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus).- Economically-important Animals and Plants.- Hypervariable DNA markers and their applications in the chicken.- Cloning of hypervariable minisatellite and simple sequence microsatellite repeats for DNA fingerprinting of important aquacultural species of salmonids and tilapias.- Genetic factors accountable for line-specific DNA fingerprint bands in quail.- Identification of markers associated with quantitative trait loci in chickens by DNA fingerprinting.- Two dimensional DNA-fingerprinting in animals.- Applications of DNA fingerprinting in plant breeding.- Oligonucleotide fingerprinting in plants and fungi.- The isolation and characterisation of plant sequences homologous to human hypervariable minisatellites.- Implementation of DNA Typing.- DNA fingerprinting: a biotechnology in business.- DNA fingerprinting: its applications in forensic case work.- Tracking the violent criminal offender through DNA typing profiles - a national database system concept.- The quality control of cell banks using DNA fingerprinting.- Detection of amplified VNTR alleles by direct chemiluminescence: application to the genetic identification of biological samples in forensic cases.- Genetic typing using automated electrophoresis and fluorescence detection.