Sequence polymorphism of the mitochondrial DNA hypervariable regions I and II in 205 Singapore Malays

Legal Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 33-37

  Wong, Hang Yee ^a   Tang, June S W ^a   Budowle, Bruce ^b   Allard, Marc W ^c   Syn, Christopher K C ^a   Tan Siew, Wai Fun ^a   Chow, Shui Tse ^a  

^a HEALTH SCIENCES AUTHORITY   (Singapore)

^b Federal Bureau of Investigation   (United States)

^c GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Haplogroups; Haplotypes; Heteroplasmy; mtDNA; Sequence polymorphism; Singapore Malay population

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; DATA BASE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROBABILITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGAPORE;

COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGIONS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ETHNIC GROUPS; GENETICS, POPULATION; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MALAYSIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SINGAPORE;

EID: 33845380743     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2006.08.007     Document Type: Article

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