Compositions, kits, and methods for short tandem repeat analysis

Abstract

Disclosed are compositions, kits, and methods for use in applications involving electrophoretic separation of nucleic acids, including capillary electrophoresis applications in which nucleic acid samples are labelled with dyes, size-separated, and subjected to short tandem repeat (STR) analysis. A sample containing DNA is mixed with a composition that includes at least one set of primers that target an STR region of the sample nucleic acid, a set of short quantification primers (QS primers) that target a first multi-copy sequence (QS sequence) of the sample nucleic acid, and a set of long quantification primers (QL primers) that target a second multi-copy sequence (QL sequence) of the sample nucleic acid, wherein the QS sequence is shorter than the QL sequence.

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