down syndrome is one of the most common causes of mental retardation observed in approximately 1/700 live birth. the use of two or more str markers related to chromosome 21 facilitates the diagnosis of down syndrome within about six hours from the collection of the samples. this is the first study has been performed in iranian population to assess the diagnostic value of using small tandem repe...

Uncovering DNA sequence variations that correlate with phenotypic changes, e.g., diseases, is the aim of sequence variation studies. Common types sequence variations are Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP, pronounced snip).SNPs are the third-generation molecular marker. SNP represents a DNA sequence variant of a single base pair with the minor allele occurring in more than 1% of a given popula...