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Molecular Biology International
Volume 2010 (2010), Article ID 740152, 5 pages
doi:10.4061/2010/740152
Research Article

Allele Frequencies of 10 Autosomal STR Loci from Chakma and Tripura Tribal Populations in Bangladesh

Ahmad Ferdous,1 Mohammad Eunus Ali,1 Shafiul Alam,1 Mahamud Hasan,1 Tania Hossain,1 and Sharif Akhteruzzaman2

1National Forensic DNA Profiling Laboratory, Department of Forensic Medicine, Dhaka Medical College, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh
2Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Dhaka, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh

Received 14 January 2010; Accepted 28 March 2010

Academic Editor: Alessandro Desideri

Copyright © 2010 Ahmad Ferdous et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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