Monitoring the inheritance of heteroplasmy by computer-assisted detection of mixed basecalls in the entire human mitochondrial DNA control region

International Journal of Legal Medicine

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 47-54

  Brandstätter, Anita ^a   Niederstätter, Harald ^a   Parson, Walther ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Forensic science; Genetic bottleneck; Length heteroplasmy; Point heteroplasmy; Sequence analysis; Sequence quality values

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BLOOD SAMPLING; BOTTLENECK POPULATION; CHILD; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; FORENSIC SCIENCE; GENE SEGREGATION; HAPLOTYPE; HETEROPLASMY; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MUTATION; POINT MUTATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 12144290521     PISSN: 09379827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00414-003-0418-z     Document Type: Article

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