Mitochondrial DNA Variations in Russian and Belorussian Populations

Human Biology

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 647-660

  Belyaeva, Olga ^a   Bermisheva, Marina ^b   Khrunin, Andrey ^a   Slominsky, Petr ^a   Bebyakova, Natalia ^c   Khusnutdinova, Elza ^b   Mikulich, Alexei ^d   Limborska, Svetlana ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^c NORTHERN STATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^d Inst of Ethnogr and Anthropology   (Belarus)

Author keywords

Eastern slavonic populations; Haplogroup; Mitochondrial DNA; Polymorphism

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE POOL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 1642495838     PISSN: 00187143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/hub.2003.0069     Document Type: Article

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