Variability of the human mitochondrial DNA control region sequences in the Lithuanian population

Journal of Applied Genetics

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 255-260

  Kasperavičiute, Dalia ^a   Kučinskas, Vaidutis ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Haplogroup; Hypervariable region I; Lithuanian; Mitochondrial DNA; Population

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; LITHUANIA; REGULATORY SEQUENCE;

DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LITHUANIA; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0036364885     PISSN: 12341983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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