Mitochondrial DNA typing from human axillary, pubic and head hair shafts - Success rates and sequence comparisons

International Journal of Legal Medicine

Volumn 112, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 287-290

  Pfeiffer, H ^a   Huhne J ^a   Ortmann, C ^a   Waterkamp, K ^a   Brinkmann, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Head, axillary and pubic hair; Heteroplasmy; Hypervariable region 1; Mitochondrial DNA; Shafts

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; AXILLA; CHEEK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRIME; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; HAIR ANALYSIS; HAIR COLOR; HAIR FOLLICLE; HAIR GROWTH; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBIC BONE; SCALP HAIR; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ADULT; BASE PAIRING; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; HAIR; HUMANS; MALE; MOUTH MUCOSA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0032869810     PISSN: 09379827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004140050251     Document Type: Article

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