Variability of mitochondrial DNA in a population sample from Iceland

Legal Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2003, Pages

  Wittig, Holger ^a   Aschenbrenner, Andrea ^b   Poetsch, Micaela ^b   Krause, Dieter ^a   Lignitz, Eberhard ^b  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

Iceland; Mitochondrial DNA; Population genetics

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EUROPE; EVOLUTION; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ICELAND; MITOCHONDRION; NORMAL HUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; REGULATOR GENE; SAMPLING;

EID: 0037739942     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1344-6223(02)00103-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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