Application of a quasi-median network analysis for the visualization of character conflicts to a population sample of mitochondrial DNA control region sequences from southern Germany (Ulm)

International Journal of Legal Medicine

Volumn 120, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 310-314

  Brandstätter, Anita ^a   Klein, Rachel ^b   Duftner, Nina ^a,c   Wiegand, Peter ^b   Parson, Walther ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Forensic; Haplogroups assignment; mtDNA polymorphisms; Phylogenetic analyses; West Eurasian population

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA ANALYSIS; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GERMANY; HAPLOTYPE; HETEROPLASMY; HOMOPLASY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; MUTATION RATE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FORENSIC GENETICS; GENETICS, POPULATION; GERMANY; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

EID: 33747371721     PISSN: 09379827     EISSN: 14371596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00414-006-0114-x     Document Type: Article

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