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off-scale STR data

Data produced when the emitted fluorescence from the PCR products being measured saturates the detector; may result in flat-topped peaks in an electropherogram for STR alleles and pull-up peaks in one or more color channels corresponding to the off-scale peak.

Date Added to Lexicon
Standard Source (Designation Number Title of Standard. Publisher, Place, Year.)
ASB Standard 091 Standard for Training in Analysis of Forensic Short Tandem Repeat (STR) DNA Data. AAFS Academy Standards Board (ASB), 410 North 21st Street, Colorado Springs, CO, 2026. Source link
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