The environmental conditions encountered in forensic casework, mass disasters and missing persons scenarios can lead to severe degradation of human DNA samples. Such highly degraded samples often produce incomplete or no STR profiles due to larger loci that can “drop out”. The inclusion of more loci as mini-STRs in the PowerPlex® 35GY System results in better and more complete profiles, making this system an ideal option to process cold-case samples and newer, difficult sample types.
In the PowerPlex® 35GY System, there are eight common loci with amplicons that are at least 100bp smaller in size than when amplified using the PowerPlex® Fusion 6C System.