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Short tandem repeat (STR) profiling

The standard nuclear DNA typing method that examines the number of repeated sequence units at a set of polymorphic loci (typically 15-24 in modern commercial kits). The resulting profile has an extremely low random match probability and is the basis of national forensic DNA databases.

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