Research progress of microhaplotype in forensics / 中国法医学杂志

Recently introduced microhaplotype has attracted more attention in forensic field. A microhaplotype is a short segment of DNA (e.g<200bp) contains two or more SNPs. The microhaplotypes showed extremely low mutation rates. The amplicons of alleles are balance to each other and without any stutters. By these advantages, it shows great value for forensic application, such as mixture stains analyzing, ancestor analysis, and kinship analysis. Thus, we aimed to review the development, analytical approach, nomenclature and population characteristic of microhaplotype.