In December 2023, Forensic Sciences Research published the Accepted Manuscript of the article “Sequence variations of 58 STRs and 94 SNPs in Northeastern Xibe with ForenSeq DNA Signature Prep Kit” by Fei Guo, Longning Zhang, Yang Xin, and Shiquan Liu: https://doi.org/10.1093/fsr/owad043

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