A family exhibiting heteroplasmy in the human mitochondrial DNA control region reveals both somatic mosaicism and pronounced segregation of mitotypes

Human Genetics

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 167-171

  Wilson, Mark R ^a   Polanskey, Deborah ^a   Replogle, Jeri ^a   DiZinno, Joseph A ^a   Budowle, Bruce ^b  

^a FBI Headquarters   (United States)

^b Federal Bureau of Investigation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; FLUORESCENT DYE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; THYMINE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CASE REPORT; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; FAMILY STUDY; FEMALE; GENE SEGREGATION; HAIR; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MOSAICISM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALIVA;

DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; MALE; MOSAICISM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0030788198     PISSN: 03406717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004390050485     Document Type: Article

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