Can the occurrence of rare insertion/deletion polymorphisms in human mtDNA be verified from phylogeny?

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 663-667

  Yao, Yonggang ^a,c   Kong, Qingpeng ^a,c   Sun, Chang ^a,c   Zhang, Yaping ^a,b  

^a KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b YUNNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Deletion; Insertion; mtDNA; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141896373     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1360/03tb9142     Document Type: Article

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