Mitochondrial heteroplasmy among maternally related individuals

International Journal of Legal Medicine

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 155-161

  Lutz, Sabine ^a   Weisser, Hans Joachim ^a   Heizmann, Jeannette ^a   Pollak, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bottleneck; D loop region; Heteroplasmy; Mitochondrial DNA; Non coding region; Sequencing

Indexed keywords

CYTIDINE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NUCLEOTIDE; THYMIDINE;

ARTICLE; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; PEDIGREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MALE; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MUTATION; PEDIGREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0034044333     PISSN: 09379827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004140050288     Document Type: Article

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